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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne