VI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does VI mean? 

• VI (noun)
  The noun VI has 2 senses:

1. the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one

2. more than 130 southeastern Virgin Islands; a dependent territory of the United States

  Familiarity information: VI used as a noun is rare.

• VI (adjective)
  The adjective VI has 1 sense:

1. denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units

  Familiarity information: VI used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

6; Captain Hicks; half a dozen; hexad; sestet; sextet; sextuplet; sise; six; sixer; VI

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

digit; figure (one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

More than 130 southeastern Virgin Islands; a dependent territory of the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

American Virgin Islands; United States Virgin Islands; VI

Instance hypernyms:

possession (a territory that is controlled by a ruling state)

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

Virgin Islands (a group of islands in northeastern West Indies (east of Puerto Rico) discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493; owned by United States and Britain)

• VI (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units

Synonyms:

6; half-dozen; half dozen; six; vi

Similar:

cardinal (being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order)

 Context examples 

According to this system, there are six skin varieties classified from I to VI.

(Fitzpatrick Classification Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutations in this gene are associated with Hereditary Sensory and Autonomic Neuropathy Type VI.

(DST wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A matrix with rows and columns labeled by graph vertices, with a 1 or 0 in position (vi,vj) according to whether vi and vj are adjacent or not.

(Adjacency Matrix, NCI Thesaurus)

The densest and heaviest ice thought to persist in Ganymede is called "Ice VI."

(Ganymede may harbor 'club sandwich' of oceans and ice, NASA)