microcircuit
noun
mi·cro·cir·cuit
ˈmī-krō-ˌsər-kət 
: a compact electronic circuit : integrated circuit
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In an age more innocent of and reverential toward computers, the reams of cool printouts gave the book's argument an air of scientific authority and inevitability; hundreds of millions of logical microcircuits seemed to banish any possibility of disagreement.
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Bjorn Lomborg, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2012
Martel and his colleagues developed an electronic microcircuit that contains both the bacteria and an array of conductors that produce magnetic fields.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Mar. 2010
By carefully controlling which conductors are active, the microcircuit can make the bacteria move in specific directions.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Mar. 2010
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
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Bjorn Lomborg, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2012
Martel and his colleagues developed an electronic microcircuit that contains both the bacteria and an array of conductors that produce magnetic fields.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Mar. 2010
By carefully controlling which conductors are active, the microcircuit can make the bacteria move in specific directions.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Mar. 2010
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
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