Source : WordNet®

CISC
     n 1: an agency of the Canadian government that unifies the
          intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies
          [syn: {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 [syn: {complex instruction set computing}, {complex
        instruction set computer}] [ant: {reduced instruction set
        computing}, {reduced instruction set computing}, {reduced
        instruction set computing}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

CISC
     
        {Complex Instruction Set Computer}