Associations to the word «Cisc»

Wiktionary

CISC, acronym. (computing) Complex instruction set computer.

Dictionary definition

CISC, noun. An agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies.
CISC, noun. (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip.

Wise words

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