MICROCHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does microchip mean? 

• MICROCHIP (noun)
  The noun MICROCHIP has 1 sense:

1. electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit

  Familiarity information: MICROCHIP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MICROCHIP (noun)

Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chip; micro chip; microchip; microprocessor chip; silicon chip

Hypernyms ("microchip" is a kind of...):

semiconductor; semiconductor device; semiconductor unit (a conductor made with semiconducting material)

Meronyms (parts of "microchip"):

integrated circuit; microcircuit (a microelectronic computer circuit incorporated into a chip or semiconductor; a whole system rather than a single component)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "microchip"):

biochip (a microchip that uses tiny strands of DNA to latch onto and quickly recognize thousands of genes at a time; intended for use in a biological environment)

DNA chip; gene chip (a microchip that holds DNA probes that form half of the DNA double helix and can recognize DNA from samples being tested)

memory chip (a RAM microchip that can be plugged into a computer to provide additional memory)

microprocessor (integrated circuit semiconductor chip that performs the bulk of the processing and controls the parts of a system)

Holonyms ("microchip" is a part of...):

computer; computing device; computing machine; data processor; electronic computer; information processing system (a machine for performing calculations automatically)

 Context examples 

An instrument that uses very small amounts of fluid on a microchip to do certain laboratory tests.

(Lab-on-a-chip, NCI Dictionary)

The anatomic site at which a microchip is implanted.

(Microchip Site, NCI Thesaurus)

The microchip device, called the CTC-iChip, enriches CTCs by removing blood cells.

(Isolated cancer cells may lead to personalized treatments, NIH)

The team developed a microchip assay, AFM-SeroChip-1, that detects the presence of antibodies generated in response to any human enterovirus (EV-A, EV-B, EV-C or EV-D) infection.

(Enterovirus antibodies detected in acute flaccid myelitis patients, National Institutes of Health)