RISC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does RISC mean? 

• RISC (noun)
  The noun RISC has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: RISC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RISC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

reduced instruction set computer; reduced instruction set computing; RISC

Hypernyms ("RISC" 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:

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

 Context examples 

Most of the proteins in the RISC (with the exception of Ago2 and Dicer have not been identified) but likely contain endonuclease, helicase, exonuclease and homology scanning activity.

(Dicer Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The siRNA is incorporated into the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC), which targets and degrades the homologous mRNA.

(Dicer Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)