Isis : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Isis	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Isis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Isis n Egyptian goddess of fertility; daughter of Geb; sister and wife of Osiris
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[94]l.) Any coral of the genus Isis, or family {Isid[91]}, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints. See {Gorgoniacea}. 3. (Astron.) One of the asteroids.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [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 (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
IS-IS {Intermediate System-Intermediate System}