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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Isis \I"sis\, n. [L., the goddess Isis, fr Gr ?.]
1. (Myth.) The principal goddess worshiped by the Egyptians.
She was regarded as the mother of Horus, and the sister
and wife of Osiris. The Egyptians adored her as the
goddess of fecundity, and as the great benefactress of
their country, who instructed their ancestors in the art
of agriculture.
2. (Zo["o]l.) Any coral of the genus Isis, or family
{Isid[ae]}, composed of joints of white, stony coral,
alternating with flexible, horny joints. See
{Gorgoniacea}.
3. (Astron.) One of the asteroids.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
Isis
n : goddess of fertility; daughter of Geb; sister and wife of
Osiris [syn: {Isis}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
ISIS
1. A toolkit for implementing fault-tolerant distributed
systems, developed at Cornell and now available commercially
2. A dialect of {JOSS}.
[Sammet 1969, p. 217].
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
IS-IS
{Intermediate System-Intermediate System}
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]:
ISIS
??? (OS, Intel)
From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]:
ISIS
Intermediate System to Intermediate System [protocol / routing] (OSI, RFC 1195), "IS-IS"
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