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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
vi
adjective: denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units [syn: {six}, {6}, {half dozen}, {half a dozen}]
noun
1: the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one [syn: {six}, {6}, {sixer}, {sise}, {Captain Hicks}, {half a dozen}, {sextet}, {sestet}, {sextuplet}, {hexad}]
2: more than 130 southeastern Virgin Islands; a dependent territory of the United States [syn: {United States Virgin Islands}, {American Virgin Islands}]
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
vi /V-I/, _not_ /vi:/ and _never_ /siks/ n.[from 'Visual Interface'] A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early {BSD} release. Became the de facto standard Unix editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favorite outside of MIT until the rise of {EMACS} after about 1984. Tends to frustrate new users no end, as it will neither take commands while expecting input text nor vice versa, and the default setup on older versions provides no indication of which mode the editor is in (years ago, a correspondent reported that he has often heard the editor's name pronounced /vi:l/; there is now a vi clone named 'vile'). Nevertheless vi (and variants such as vim and elvis) is still widely used (about half the respondents in a 1991 Usenet poll preferred it), and even EMACS fans often resort to it as a mail editor and for small editing jobs (mainly because it starts up faster than the bulkier versions of EMACS). See {holy wars}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
vi
1. {Visual Interface}. 2. The {country code} for the U. S. Virgin Islands. [{Jargon File}] (1999-01-27)
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
VI VIsual editor (Unix)
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