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

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1. (noun) Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada, CISC
an agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies

2. (noun) complex instruction set computing, complex instruction set computer, CISC
(computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip

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