CIRRUS

n. cloud formation containing ice crystals

Cirrus can refer to:Cirrus cloud, a type of cloudIn biology, a bundle of cilia fused together into a large mobile projectionChrysler Cirrus, a car produced by DaimlerChryslerCirrus (building), a high-rise apartment building in Helsinki, FinlandCirrus Vodka, an award-winning ultra-premium potato vodka, made in Virginia, USACirrus (rocket), a German rocketCirrus (interbank network), an interbank network (ATM network) by MasterCardCirrus Engine, a British aircraft engine companyCirrus Design, an aircraft company based in Duluth, MinnesotaMicrosoft's internal code name for its Microsoft Jet Database EngineSchempp-Hirth Cirrus, a sailplaneCIRRUS (Cable Installation, Recovery and Repair Underwater Submersible), a submersible used when laying submarine communications cablesCirrus Logic, a manufacturer of video cardsCirrus Airlines, a German airline based in Saarbrücken, Germany
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Cirrus is a worldwide interbank network. It links MasterCard, Maestro, Diners Club credit, debit and prepaid cards to a network of over 1,000,000 ATMs in 93 countries.Maestro cards are, by default, linked to the Cirrus network, but very often, all three logotypes of the MasterCard family will be shown: MasterCard, Maestro and Cirrus. Canadian and American ATMs use this network alongside their local networks, and many banks have adopted Cirrus as their international interbank network alongside either a local network, the rival VISA PLUS ATM network, or both.
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Noun
1. usually coiled
(synonym) cirrhus
(hypernym) tendril
2. a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles)
(synonym) cirrus cloud
(hypernym) cloud
(hyponym) mare's tail
3. a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile
(hypernym) process, outgrowth, appendage

n. cirrus

(n.)
The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychaeta.
  

(n.)
The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca.
  

(n.)
See under Cloud.
  

(n.)
A tendril or clasper.
  

(n.)
A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri.