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byjuram Commentator Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 57	GIS 12/28/2011 12:54 PM
	What is GIS
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lyn Guru Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 42355 Good Answers: 1693	#1 Re: GIS 12/28/2011 12:57 PM
	What is a search engine? Finding Information on the Internet: Table of Contents
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JRaef Guru Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: California, USA, where the Godless live next door to God. Posts: 4665 Good Answers: 804	#2 Re: GIS 12/28/2011 10:00 PM
	In the context of electrical equipment, it usually means Gas Insulated Switchgear (or sometimes just a Gas Insulated Switch). it is used in high voltage transmission, usually by power utilities. The gas is usually sulfur hexafluoride or SF₆, an inert non-flamable gas that has better dielectric properties than air. GIS became popular when Oil Insulated Switches were rendered obsolete because the oil contained PCBs. GIS can also be used to describe a Gas Insulation System, as used in the above but also as a float on top of molten magnesium to keep air away from it. GIS also means other things such as Geographical Information Systems or the Green Iguana Society (there really is such a thing), but we can't read your mind to know the context of your question. __________________ All I every really wanted to be, was... A LUMBERJACK!.
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Tornado Guru Join Date: May 2009 Location: Richland, WA, USA Posts: 21017 Good Answers: 795	#3 Re: GIS 12/29/2011 1:38 AM
	GIs = doughboys = U.S. soldiers (morphed from the abbreviation for Government or General Issue). __________________ In vino veritas; in cervisia carmen; in aqua E. coli.
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electricalexpert65 Guru Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 2061 Good Answers: 169	#4 Re: GIS 12/29/2011 4:37 AM
	i) Gas Insulated Substation ii) Gas Insulated Switchgear iii) Gas Insulated Switch
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PWSlack Guru Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: In the bothy, 7 chains down the line from Dodman's Lane level crossing, in the nation formerly known as Great Britain. Kettle's on. Posts: 32175 Good Answers: 839	#5 Re: GIS 12/29/2011 4:19 PM
	It looks like an undefined abbreviation. __________________ "Did you get my e-mail?" - "The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" - George Bernard Shaw, 1856
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