Noun cisc has 2 senses
  1. Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada, CISC - an agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies
    --1 is a kind of international intelligence agency
  2. complex instruction set computing, complex instruction set computer, CISC - (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip
    --2 is a kind of computer architecture, architecture
    Antonyms: reduced instruction set computing, reduced instruction set computer, RISC
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