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Noun: complex instruction set computer
  1. (computing) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip
    "The mainframe used a complex instruction set computer architecture";
    - complex instruction set computing, CISC

Derived forms: complex instruction set computers

Type of: architecture, computer architecture

Antonym: reduced instruction set computer

Encyclopedia: Complex instruction set computer