SIR en · ADJ
Meanings
- (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, not-comparable) Initialism of susceptible-infected/infectious-removed/recovered.
Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
SIR en · NOUN
Meanings
- (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable) Initialism of surface insulation resistance.
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(abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable) Abbreviation of silent information regulator.
alt of silent information regulator
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| SIRs | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
SIR protein (Silent Information Regulator) · SIR gene (Silent Information Regulator)
SIR en · PROPN
Meanings
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(abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Special Intensive Revision, a voter-roll revision process in India.
alt of Special Intensive Revision
The Kerala government has moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Election Commission (EC) of India to defer the conduct of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls of the State. The State said the conduct of the “cumbersome” SIR process from November 4 to December 4 would coincide with the elections to the local bodies in Kerala. The simultaneous conduct of both exercises would not only strain human resource but also create an “administrative impasse” with no personnel left to take care of the day-to-day functioning of the government. The government said the simultaneous conduct of the SIR and the local body elections would be an “near- impossibility”.
2025 November 18, Krishnadas Rajagopal, “Kerala approaches Supreme Court to postpone Special Intensive Revision. The State said the 'cumbersome' SIR will coincide with the local bodies election and there are no human resources to conduct SIR and local bodies poll simultaneously”, in The Hindu: