ALL meanings of nis
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N n - abbreviation Technical meaning of NIS Network Information Service 3
- noun nis (obsolete) Contraction of ne is. 1
- noun nis a city in SE Serbia: a former capital of Serbia. 1
- noun Definition of nis in Technology (networking, protocol) (NIS) Sun Microsystems' Yellow Pages (yp) client-server protocol for distributing system configuration data such as user and host names between computers on a network. Sun licenses the technology to virtually all other Unix vendors. The name "Yellow Pages" is a registered trademark in the United Kingdom of British Telecommunications plc for their (paper) commercial telephone directory. Sun changed the name of their system to NIS, though all the commands and functions still start with "yp", e.g. ypcat, ypmatch, ypwhich. 1
- noun nis a friendly spirit or goblin thought to take care of a farmer's home, barn, stables, etc 0
- noun nis an industrial town in Serbia, in the SE: situated on routes between central Europe and the Aegean. Pop: 203 670 (2002) 0
- noun nis city in E Serbia: pop. 175,000 0