Isis

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Isis
    n 1: Egyptian goddess of fertility; daughter of Geb; sister and
         wife of Osiris
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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 The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
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 V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)
ISIS
       Industrial Signature Interoperability Specification
(cryptography)
       
    
from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)
ISIS
       Integrated Systems and Information Services (OS, Intel)
       
    
from V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)
ISIS
       Intermediate System to Intermediate System [protocol / routing]
(OSI, RFC 1195), "IS-IS"
       
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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

    

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