ISA

Initialism of Industry Standard Architecture, an early type of personal computer expansion slot bus.

Proper noun

  1. Initialism of Industry Standard Architecture, an early type of personal computer expansion slot bus.
  2. Initialism of International Seabed Authority, an intergovernmental body set up to regulate deep seabed mining and ensure the marine environment is protected from any harmful effects.
    • 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. - 2023, Martin MacInnes, In...

Noun

  1. Initialism of instruction set 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...
  2. Initialism of individual savings account, a financial account for investment with special tax rules.

    Hypernyms: account

    Coordinate Terms: IRA HSA FSA

  3. Initialism of International Standard on Auditing, one of a set of professional standards for the performance of audits of financial information issued by the IAASB.
  4. Initialism of intelligent speed assistance / adaptation.
  5. Initialism of isosaccharinic acid.
  6. Initialism of ideological state apparatus.
    • 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...
  7. Abbreviation of international searching authority.

Forms

ISAs