Egyptian Religion. a goddess of fertility, the sister and wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, and usually represented as a woman with a cow's horns with the solar disk between them: later worshiped in the Greek and Roman empires.
Origin
< Latin < GreekÎsis < Egyptian'st
British Dictionary definitions for Isis
Isis1
/ˈaɪsɪs/
noun
1.
the local name for the River Thames at Oxford
Isis2
/ˈaɪsɪs/
noun
1.
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
Isis in Technology
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].