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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