microchip
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1. microchip - Noun
2. microchip - Verb
Meaning
electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit
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A DLP chip is a postage stamp-sized microchip whose surface is an array of millions of microscopic mirrors.
A name plate has been mounted on the rover’s robot arm and all 155 semifinalist names and essays, etched on a microchip, will be sent to Mars as well.
An independent microchip inside her artificial brain handles gesture expression, body coordination, and emotion expression.
Dogs Trust, meanwhile, is urging the public to avoid buying dogs or puppies if a microchip number is not present on an advert.
Disadvantages Many "intelligent" ink cartridges contain a microchip that communicates the estimated ink level to the printer; this may cause the printer to display an error message, or incorrectly inform the user that the ink cartridge is empty.
A somewhat different implementation was demonstrated at Pennsylvania State University using a microchip which generated a pair of perpendicular standing surface acoustic waves allowing to position particles equidistant to each other on a grid.