1. An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991
   - Commonwealth of Independent States

1. A unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second
   - curie

Type of: global organisation [Brit], global organization, international organisation [Brit], international organization, radioactivity unit, world organisation [Brit], world organization

Encyclopedia: CIS

• automatic pistol
• automatic rifle
• automatic teller
• automatic teller machine
• automatic transmission
• automatic washer
• automatic weapon
• automatically
• automation
• automatise
• automatism
• Automatiste
• automatize
• automaton
• automatonlike
• Automeris
• Automeris io
• automobile
• automobile battery
• automobile driver
• automobile engine
• automobile factory
• automobile horn
• automobile industry
• automobile insurance