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ALL meanings of isis

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  • noun isis Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (or Islamic State in Iraq and Syria): a radical Sunni Muslim organization whose aim is to restore an Islamic state, or caliphate, in the region encompassing Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, the Palestinian territories, and southeastern Turkey. 1
  • noun Definition of isis in Technology 1. A toolkit for implementing fault-tolerant distributed systems, developed at Cornell and now available commercially 2. A dialect of JOSS. 1
  • noun isis (zoology) Any coral of the genus Isis, or family Isidae, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints. 1
  • noun isis the local name for the River Thames at Oxford 0
  • noun isis an ancient Egyptian fertility goddess, depicted as a woman with a cow's horns, between which was the disc of the sun; wife and sister of Osiris 0
  • noun acronym isis Islamic State of Iraq and Syria 0
  • noun isis the goddess of fertility, sister and wife of Osiris, usually represented with a cow's horns surrounding a solar (or lunar) disk 0
  • noun isis Thames , esp. at, & west of, Oxford 0
  • noun isis (zoology) Any coral of the genus Isis, or family Isididae, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints. 0
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