isis

7 definitions found

isis - 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]

isis - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Isis
      n 1: Egyptian goddess of fertility; daughter of Geb; sister and
           wife of Osiris

isis - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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].
  

isis - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  ISIS
         Industrial Signature Interoperability Specification
  (cryptography)
         

  ISIS
         Integrated Systems and Information Services (OS, Intel)
         

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

isis - 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