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IS-IS

Date "IS-IS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)


Specialty Definition: IS-IS

DomainDefinition

Computing

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]. IS-IS Intermediate System-Intermediate System. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: IS-IS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-i-s-s"

-1 letter: sis.

-2 letters: is, si.

 Words containing the letters "i-i-s-s"
 

+1 letter: issei.

 

+2 letters: crisis, diesis, ibises, insist, irises, isseis, miosis, missis, niseis, rishis, seisin, sigils, siskin, visits.

 

+3 letters: abiosis, cissies, cissoid, civisms, daisies, dismiss, dissing, distils, finises, fissile, fission, gipsies, hissies, hissing, iciness, incises, insides, insists, instils, iodises, iodisms, ionises, isatins, isospin, issuing, kinesis, kissing, liaises, meiosis, merisis, mimesis, misaims, misbias, misfits, mishits, mislies, missaid, missies, missile, missing, mission, missive, missuit, mitises, mitosis, myiasis, obiisms, ossific, pissing, pissoir, pistils, raisins, risings, saimins, saiyids, sashimi, seising, seisins, seismic, seizins, sialids, sickies, sickish, sidings, silesia, silicas, silkies, sillies, silvics, simians, similes, simious, simlins, siskins, sissier, sissies, sixties, siziest, sizings, skiings, spirits, stimies, swinish, vibists, virosis, visions, wispish, wissing.

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Alternative Orthography: IS-IS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 53 2D 49 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01010011 00101101 01001001 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#83 &#45 &#73 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0053 002D 0049 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4353154353

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