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 computing , complex instruction set computing , complex instruction set computer , complex instruction set computer , complex instruction set computer , cisc , cisc , cisc ]

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