noun
1. an agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies
• Regions: ↑Canada
• Hypernyms: ↑international intelligence agency
2. (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip
• Ant: ↑RISC, ↑reduced instruction set computer (for: ↑complex instruction set computer), ↑reduced instruction set computing (for: ↑complex instruction set computing)
• Topics: ↑computer science, ↑computing
• Hypernyms: ↑computer architecture, ↑architecture
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/sisk/, n.
complex instruction set computer: a computer whose central processing unit recognizes a relatively large number of instructions.
Cf. RISC.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.