| Subject | English | Swedish |
| IT | complex instruction set computer | CISC-dator |
| IT, engl. | complex instruction set computer | complex instruction set computer |
| comp., MS | complex instruction set computing | Complex Instruction Set Computing (The implementation of complex instructions in a microprocessor design so that they can be invoked at the assembly language level. The instructions can be very powerful, allowing for complicated and flexible ways of calculating such elements as memory addresses. All this complexity, however, usually requires many clock cycles to execute each instruction) |