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Noun: CISC
  1. An agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies
    - Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada
     
  2. (computing) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip
    - complex instruction set computing, complex instruction set computer

Type of: architecture, computer architecture, international intelligence agency

Antonym: reduced instruction set computing

Encyclopedia: CISC