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# ci

«ci» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **«Chief Inspector», a senior police officer in the UK** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

abbreviation and fragment (CI; ci)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (abbreviation) CI often means «Chief Inspector», a senior police officer in the UK. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ci/#m1)

2) (abbreviation, science and maths) CI means «confidence interval», a range of numbers that probably contains the true value. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ci/#m2)

3) (abbreviation) The Channel Islands (Jersey, Guernsey and others) are sometimes written CI; CI is also the code for Côte d'Ivoire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ci/#m3)

4) (Mandarin, pinyin) «Cì» means «time» as in «once, twice» (yí cì = once), and «cí» means «word»; it sounds like «tsuh». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ci/#m4)

5) (Italian) «Ci» means «us» or «there». It is not an English word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ci/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

You meet CI in police dramas («DCI» = Detective Chief Inspector), in science reports about results, and in Mandarin lessons when counting how many times something happens. In computing, CI also means «continuous integration», automatically testing code.

### examples

- It is worthy ot note that Philo attributes the tirst inven- tion of letters to Abraham iRees, Ci,clopediii, art. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914)) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ci/#x1)
- The CI arrived at the crime scene. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ci/#x2)
- DCI Smith led the detectives. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ci/#x3)
- The scientists gave a 95% CI for the average height. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ci/#x4)
- In Mandarin, «yí cì» means «once». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ci/#x5)
- We went on holiday to the Channel Islands, written CI on the map. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ci/#x6)
- «Ci vediamo» means «see you» in Italian. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ci/#x7)

### note

Not an English word on its own. What it means depends on context: police rank, statistics, a place code, Mandarin pinyin («cì», sounds like «tsuh») or Italian. Do not guess; look at the sentence around it.

### In the corpora

- [«Ancient», «conscience» and «conscious» spell a /sh/ sound with ci or sci.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/14-words-to-know-years-5-6/25/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ci» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/C/ci/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.