cisc meaning and definition

CISC noun

Definition of CISC (noun)

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