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Noun: vis major  vis mey-ju(r)
  1. A natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events
    "The insurance policy didn't cover damage from vis major events like earthquakes";
    - act of God, force majeure, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty
Abbreviation: Vis.
  1. Viscount
Noun: VI
  1. The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
    - six, 6, half a dozen
     
  2. More than 130 southeastern Virgin Islands; a dependent territory of the United States
    - United States Virgin Islands, American Virgin Islands

Type of: calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, digit, disaster, figure, possession, tragedy

Part of: Virgin Islands

Encyclopedia: Vis major

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