Search Result for "complex instruction set computing":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip;
[syn: complex instruction set computing, complex instruction set computer, CISC]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

complex instruction set computing n 1: (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip [syn: complex instruction set computing, complex instruction set computer, CISC] [ant: RISC, reduced instruction set computer, reduced instruction set computing]