1. An agency of the Canadian government that unifies the intelligence units of Canadian law enforcement agencies
   - 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
   - complex instruction set computing, complex instruction set computer

Type of: architecture, computer architecture, international intelligence agency

Antonym: RISC

Encyclopedia: CISC

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