Definition of CISS
- Within Canada alone, CISS stands for three different organizations: Canadian International Student Services, the Canadian ISBN Service System and the Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies. CISS is also an acronym for the Canadian Internetworked Scientific Supercomputer and Criminal Intelligence Service Saskatchewan, a Canadian province. CISS-FM is also the official name of a radio station commonly identified as KISS-FM in the Ottawa market.
- A French group that sports for hearing-impaired people uses CISS as acronym for Le Comité International des Sports Silencieux (or, in English, the International Committee of Silent Sports). American organizations known as CISS are the Washingston State-based Cortes Island Seniors Society, an aviation group called the Central Indiana Soaring Society and the Channel Islands Specialists' Society. Conferences branded with CISS include the Conference on Information Science and Systems and the Inter-American Conference on Social Security.
- Some inkjet printers use a process called the Continuous Ink Supply System, better known as CISS. CISS also stands for Cisco Information Security Specialist, Chandro International Software & Services, Computerized Inventory Systems Specialists, Center for Information Systems Security, Configurable Integrated Surveillance System, Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem, Computational Intelligence in Services Sciences and Corporate Information Systems Security.
- Within the realm of academia, CISS stands for Concordia International School Shanghai, Cambridge International Scholarship Scheme and Conseil International des Sciences Sociales.
- Various other entities are identified as CISS. These include Ontario-based Children's Integration Support Services, CEESA International Sales Survey, Cooperazione Internazionale Sud-sud, Community Integrated Service Systems, Chief Integrated Support Services, Centaur Integrated Support Structure, Constructive Interference Steady State, Call Independent Supplementary Service, Contractor Integrated Security Suite, and the Customer Implementation and Support Services department of U.S. telecommunications firm Sprint. Cast-in-Steel-Shell is an engineering term known as CISS, which also stands for a medical condition known as Cold-Induced Sweating Syndrome.