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Electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit
Answer for the clue "Electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit ", 9 letters:
microchip
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. integrated circuit; microprocessor. vb. (context transitive English) To fit (an animal) with a microchip.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A microchip or integrated circuit is a set of electronic components on a single unit. Microchip implant (animal) , a microchip implanted into animals Microchip implant (human) , a microchip implanted into a human being Microchip can also refer to: Microchip ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit [syn: chip , micro chip , silicon chip ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"integrated circuit," 1975, from micro- + chip (n.1).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A microchip in a couch will sense the presence of a sitter and turn the heat up in the room. ▪ It's a microchip which, when inserted into some part of the chair, will act like an electronic identity tag. ▪ Most of us are conversant ...
Usage examples of microchip.
If one microchip, by some rare misfortune, were to fail, then two others remained to accept sensory data and provide control commands.
All the Golden Ring countries had been dependent on the microchip technologies.
He had posed a challenging problem, in the central area where my own ego lies: How does one make an efficient device for telomere inspection, without genome scanners or anything else involving microchip technology?
We see the control panel, inside the microchip plant open and the controls burn out.
Americans had tagged him with a microchip, so that they could keep track of him over the ensuing years.
Blessed is the microchip, she thought, for its users shall inherit the earth.
Each tiny Sen-Sen-sized microchip was housed in a rectangular casing about an inch long.
May, a forty-year-old microchip physicist who had retired from Intel a wealthy man several years earlier.
Still, as her fashion sense could be etched on a microchip with room to spare, she had to figure Roarke knew what he was doing.
The trouble was that they needed computers that were compact and cheap--but once the microchip came in, they had it.
It was not till the mid-1970s, with the development of the microchip, that computers grew small enough, versatile enough, and cheap enough to allow computerized machinery to become practical for industrial use.
In a huge hardware store at the mall I saw Eric Massingale, a former microchip sales engineer who changed his life by coming out here to join the teaching staff of the computer center at the Hill.
There were no caches of microchips on Virginia or automated factories like those which made some planets so valuable.
Feds will continue to strip the caches of microchips they find in the Reaches.
Kilo for kilo, the shell was as valuable as purpose-designed microchips from factories operating across the Miffor.