Crossword clues for microcircuit
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. An electronic device, usually fabricated by photolithography, that is very small and implements several components or their equivalent; an integrated circuit.
WordNet
n. a microelectronic computer circuit incorporated into a chip or semiconductor; a whole system rather than a single component [syn: integrated circuit]
Usage examples of "microcircuit".
The maze and the crypt entrance on the main floor were so far below that they looked like the microcircuit embroidery on a turin cloth.
Earth, however, a microcircuit failed, as Ishizawa himself discovered very quickly.
Ishizawa did not know, and never lived to learn, that his failed microcircuit itself resulted from just such a Heisenberg cascade.
Was there indeed something missing, some object as big as an experimental robot, or as tiny as an advanced microcircuit, whose theft might provide a motive for this attack?
The air rained microcircuits in the seconds before Mahnmut hit the surface.
The bracelet has microcircuits and small holographic projectors for when I need to know the time.
Aphrodite loosed from beneath her breasts her secret breastband, and held the thin web of cloth and microcircuits in her hand.
Simply out of habit, knowing all the turins were as dead and inoperative as the servitors and electric lights, he aligned the embroidered microcircuits in the cloth with the center of his forehead.
Ada lay back on the bed, lifted the turin cloth over her face, set the embroidered microcircuits against her forehead, and closed her eyes, not really expecting the turin to work.
In recent years it has become clear that there are electrical microcircuits in the brain.
Such microcircuits seem to increase in abundance in a manner consistent with our usual notions about the complexity of an animal, reaching their greatest proliferation in both absolute and relative terms in human beings.
The existence of such microcircuits suggests that intelligence may be the result not only of high brain-to-body-mass ratios but also of an abundance of specialized switching elements in the brain.
There was a seal across it, with a tiny pattern of microcircuits dappled over the top.
Where a human memory might have failed, the whirring microcircuits had linked the three items, recalled that up to his exposure by his wife in 1955 Roschmann had used the name of Fritz Wegener, and reported accordingly.
The innards of the CI module formed a glittering assemblage before her, the microcircuits like a maze rendered too fine for the humanoid eye to follow.