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CISC

(sɪsk)
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complex instruction set computer: a computer whose central processing unit recognizes a relatively large number of instructions.

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Noun	1.	CISC - an agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada international intelligence agency - an intelligence agency outside the United States Canada - a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada; "the border between the United States and Canada is the longest unguarded border in the world"
	2.	CISC - (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip complex instruction set computer, complex instruction set computing computer architecture, architecture - (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software; "the architecture of a computer's system software" computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures reduced instruction set computer, reduced instruction set computing, RISC - (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform

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