CID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does CID mean? 

• CID (noun)
  The noun CID has 1 sense:

1. the United States Army's principal law enforcement agency responsible for the conduct of criminal investigations for all levels of the Army anywhere in the world

  Familiarity information: CID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The United States Army's principal law enforcement agency responsible for the conduct of criminal investigations for all levels of the Army anywhere in the world

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

CID; Criminal Investigation Command

Hypernyms ("CID" is a kind of...):

law enforcement agency (an agency responsible for insuring obedience to the laws)

Meronyms (parts of "CID"):

U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory; United States Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory; US Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory; USACIL (a defense laboratory of the Criminal Investigation Command; the United States Army's primary forensic laboratory in support of criminal intelligence)

Holonyms ("CID" is a part of...):

Army; U. S. Army; United States Army; US Army; USA (the army of the United States of America; the agency that organizes and trains soldiers for land warfare)

 Context examples 

CID is accomplished by selecting an ion of interest with the mass analyzer and then subjecting that ion to collisions with neutral atoms or molecules.

(Collision-Induced Dissociation, NCI Thesaurus)