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COI

COI is the initialism of conflict of interest.

COI is the initialism of centre of inertia.

COI is the initialism of Central Office of Information.

Meaning of conflict of interest

Noun

conflict of interest (countable and uncountable, plural conflicts of interest, abbreviation COI)

  1. A situation in which an individual or legal entity in a position of trust (such as an attorney, investment advisor, broker, politician, executive, director, scientist or physician) has competing professional or personal interests.
    • Grassley continues to probe Abedin’s potential conflicts of interest when she was getting four different paychecks at once. “We know she set up dinners for Secretary Clinton and her private-sector employers and e-mailed private-sector employees from government accounts,” he says.2016 January 31, “Is Huma Abedin Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon or Her Next Big Problem?”, in Vanity Fair, retrieved 21 Jan 2016
    Synonyms:
    COI
  2. The competing interest itself.

Meaning of centre of inertia

Noun

centre of inertia (plural centres of inertia)

  1. (Canada, UK, dated, rare) The centre of mass.
    Synonyms:
    COI
  2. (Canada, UK, rare, rotational dynamics) A point, near or within a body, at which the body's mass can be assumed to be concentrated when considering its rotational motion and moment of inertia. This may be different from its centre of mass which is the equivalent for linear motion.

Noun capitalized: CoI

CoI (plural CoIs)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of centre of inertia.

Forms of COI

pluralCOIs
pluralCoIs

Questions about COI

What is COI the initialism of?
COI is the initialism of conflict of interest.
What part of speech is COI?
COI is a noun.
What is the plural of COI?
The plural of COI is COIs.

Words near COI in the dictionary

  1. cohærent
  2. cohæres
  3. cohæring
  4. cohæsion
  5. cohæsive
  6. COI
  7. Coia
  8. Coias
  9. Coiba
  10. Coiba spinetail
  11. coicopihue

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Adapted from Wiktionary: COI (page history and authors); CoI (page history and authors); conflict of interest (page history and authors); centre of inertia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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