From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006): CISC n 1: an agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies [syn: Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada, CISC] 2: (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip [syn: complex instruction set computing, complex instruction set computer, CISC] [ant: RISC, reduced instruction set computer, reduced instruction set computing]
CISC n 1: an agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies [syn: Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada, CISC] 2: (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip [syn: complex instruction set computing, complex instruction set computer, CISC] [ant: RISC, reduced instruction set computer, reduced instruction set computing]
