English noun: CISC | |||
1. | CISC (group) an agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies | ||
Synonyms | Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada | ||
Broader (hypernym) | international intelligence agency | ||
Domain region | Canada | ||
2. | CISC (attribute) (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip | ||
Synonyms | complex instruction set computer, complex instruction set computing | ||
Broader (hypernym) | architecture, computer architecture | ||
Domain category | computer science, computing | ||
Antonyms | reduced instruction set computer, reduced instruction set computing, risc | ||