Isis

8 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Isis \I"sis\, n. [L., the goddess Isis, fr. Gr. ?.]
     [1913 Webster]
     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.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. (Zool.) Any coral of the genus Isis, or family {Isid[ae]},
        composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with
        flexible, horny joints. See {Gorgoniacea}.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. (Astron.) One of the asteroids.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Isis
       n : Egyptian goddess of fertility; daughter of Geb; sister and
           wife of Osiris

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "Isis":
     Amen-Ra, Anubis, Ashtoreth, Astarte, Baal, Bast, Ceres, Demeter,
     Dionysus, Frey, Horus, Khem, Min, Neph, Nephthys, Nut, Osiris, Pan,
     Priapus, Ptah, Ra, Set, Thoth
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  ISIS
       ??? (OS, Intel)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  ISIS
       Industrial Signature Interopeability Specification (cryptography)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  ISIS
       Intermediate System to Intermediate System [protocol / routing] (OSI,
       RFC 1195), "IS-IS"
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [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 (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  IS-IS
       
          {Intermediate System-Intermediate System}