CISC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does CISC mean? 

• CISC (noun)
  The noun CISC has 2 senses:

1. an agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies

2. (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip

  Familiarity information: CISC used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CISC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

CISC; Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada

Hypernyms ("CISC" is a kind of...):

international intelligence agency (an intelligence agency outside the United States)

Domain region:

Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

CISC; complex instruction set computer; complex instruction set computing

Hypernyms ("CISC" is a kind of...):

architecture; computer architecture ((computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Antonym:

RISC ((computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform)