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ISA
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Appendix:Variations of "isa"
English
Pronunciation
en /ˈaɪsə/ individual savings account
en aɪsə 2
Noun
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en Q272683 en computing en w:instruction set architecture.
en 2025-03-25 Kehe Jason Angelina Jolie Was Right About Computers. “RISC architecture is gonna change everything.” Those absurdly geeky, incredibly prophetic words were spoken 30 years ago. Today, they’re somehow truer than ever Wired https://www.wired.com/story/angelina-jolie-was-right-about-risc-architecture/ Everyone has their own way of explaining it. The ISA is the bridge, or the interface, between the hardware and the software. Or it’s the blueprint. Or it’s the computer’s DNA. These are helpful enough, as is the common comparison of an ISA to a language. “You and I are using English,” as w:Calista Redmond said to me at the conference. “That’s our ISA.” But it gets confusing. Software speaks in languages too—programming languages. That’s why w:David Patterson (computer scientist) prefers dictionary or vocabulary. The ISA is less a specific language, more a set of generally available words. https://web.archive.org/web/20261009093818/https://www.wired.com/story/angelina-jolie-was-right-about-risc-architecture/ 9 October 2026
en Q6025260 en UK finance en w:individual savings account, a financial account for investment with special tax rules.
en account#Noun
en IRA#Noun HSA#Noun FSA#Noun
en accounting en w:International Standards on Auditing International Standard on Auditing, one of a set of professional standards for the performance of audits of financial information issued by the IAASB.
en Europe transport en w:intelligent speed assistance intelligent speed assistance / adaptation.
en Q6086309 en sugar acid en isosaccharinic acid<id:Q6086309>.
en Marxism en w:Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses ideological state apparatus.
en Roger Burrows On Neoreaction The Sociological Review Magazine 2018-09-29 https://thesociologicalreview.org/collections/undisciplining/on-neoreaction/ They have come to think of the universities, the civil service, and the media – the old Althusserian ISAs – with its orthodoxy of egalitarianism, democracy and social constructionism, as the Cathedral; a quasi-religious structure that functions hegemonically to supress dissent. https://web.archive.org/web/20240204121551/https://thesociologicalreview.org/collections/undisciplining/on-neoreaction/ 4 February 2024
en patent law en international searching authority.
Proper noun
en computing en w:Industry Standard Architecture, an early type of personal computer expansion slot bus.
en w:International Seabed Authority, an intergovernmental body set up to regulate deep seabed mining and ensure the marine environment is protected from any harmful effects.
en 2023 Martin MacInnes In Ascension Atlantic Books 49 If this compromised the expedition, it wasn’t exactly a shock – corporate sponsorship always seemed to lurk in the small print, and ISA had been authorising seafloor surveys for years.
Coordinate terms
expansion slot type
en AGP
en EISA
en MCA
en PCI
en PCIe
en VLB
Anagrams
en ais ais A.S.I. Asi AIS a-Si sia Ais Sia sai A.I.s IAS ASI IAs AIs A. S. I. SIA
en 3-letter abbreviations