cisc

1. 1.

   an agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies

   SynonymsCriminal Intelligence Services of Canada

   Broaderinternational intelligence agency

   Canada

2. 2.

   (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip

   Synonymscomplex instruction set computingcomplex instruction set computer

   AntonymsRISC

   Broadercomputer architecture

   computer science

Other forms of cisc

plural

ciscs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cisc

What does cisc mean?

cisc means "an agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cisc?

cisc has 1 syllable: cisc.

What is another word for cisc?

Close synonyms include Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada, complex instruction set computing, complex instruction set computer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of cisc?

The recorded antonyms are RISC.

Is cisc a common word?

cisc is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.