microcircuit

noun

mi·​cro·​cir·​cuit ˈmī-krō-ˌsər-kət 

: a compact electronic circuit : integrated circuit

microcircuitry

ˌmī-krō-ˈsər-kə-trē 

noun

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

How discrete, at a cellular circuit and microcircuit level, are the different components and behaviors underlying threat processing? —Dean Mobbs, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2019

The sheet, roughly three millimeters thick, is made up of a series of repeating modules, or microcircuits, similar to the array of logic gates in a computer chip. —Quanta Magazine, 6 Apr. 2016

Americans now control 80% of Europe’s computer business, 90% of the microcircuit industry, 40% of its automaking, and sizable shares of chemicals, farm machinery and oil. —Lily Rothman, Time, 25 Dec. 2017

Word History

First Known Use

1959, in the meaning defined above