CNI

CNI is the abbreviation for a number of organizations and companies, including:

• Centro Nacional de Inteligencia, the Spanish secret service agency.
• Central Nacional de Informaciones, the (last) Chilean secret service agency during Pinochet's government
• Church of North India
• CityNews International, A Canadian International Newscast which airs on the Citytv stations (excluding Citytv Toronto) and on Toronto's News Station CablePulse24.
• Chickasaw Nation Industries, is a federally chartered corporation wholly owned by the Chickasaw Nation.
• Coalition for Networked Information, an organization of libraries, universities, publishers and telecommunications firms.
• Council for the National Interest, a political advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C.
• Colegio Nacional Iquitos, a Peruvian soccer team.
• Corpo della Nobiltà Italiana, the Italian nobility association.
• Communication Networks Institute, located at Dortmund University of Technology.
• Centre national des indépendants et paysans, a French political party.
• Corporación de Noticias e Información (News and Information Corporation), a news organization in Mexico (see XHTVM-TV)

It is also an abbreviation for:

• Calcineurin inhibitor, a class of immunosuppressive drug.
• Common Network Interface Ring
• Olfactory nerve, or Cranial nerve I
• Compiled Native Interface (previously called Cygnus Native Interface), a Java Native Interface equivalent for the GCJ compiler
• Critical National Infrastructure, the essential systems and services which allow society to continue to function, such as electricity and water supplies.
• Originally Certified NetWare Instructor, then subsequently (when UnixWare entered Novells product range) it became Certified Novell Instructor.
• Certificate of No Impediment: If you are planning on marrying overseas (not in the UK), you may be required to provide the local authorities with a certificate of no impediment (CNI) as evidence that you are single and free to marry.
• Iodine cyanide, which has the alternative chemical formula of CNI.
• Communications, Navigation and Identification (Aerospace).
• Consejo Nacional Indígena, councils in countries in the Americas for the rights of native people.

It is also used as a phonetically similar abbreviation in:

• CNI-dog (or "seeing eye dog"), a guide dog for blind persons.