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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Nis \Nis\ [From ne is.] Is not. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):

NIS Network Information Service (NSF)
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):

NIS Network Information System (Unix)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Network Information Service NIS Yellow Pages (NIS) Sun Microsystems' Yellow Pages (yp) client-server protocol for distributing system configuration data such as user and host names between computers on a network. Sun licenses the technology to virtually all other Unix vendors. The name "Yellow Pages" is a registered trademark in the United Kingdom of British Telecommunications plc for their (paper) commercial telephone directory. Sun changed the name of their system to NIS, though all the commands and functions still start with "yp", e.g. ypcat, ypmatch, ypwhich. Unix manual pages: yp(3), ypclnt(3), ypcat(1), ypmatch(1). (1995-04-08)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

NISI. This word is frequently used in legal proceedings to denote that something has been done, which is to be valid unless something else Shall be done within a certain time to defeat it. For example, an order may be made that if on the day appointed to show cause, none be shown, an injunction will be dissolved of course, on motion, and production of an affidavit of service of the order. This is called an order nisi. Ch. Pr. 547. Under the compulsory arbitration law of Pennsylvania, on the filing of the award, judgment nisi is to be entered: which judgment is to be as valid as if it had been rendered on the verdict of a jury, unless an appeal be entered within the time required by the law.