microcircuit
noun
mi·cro·cir·cuit
ˈmī-krō-ˌsər-kət 
: a compact electronic circuit : integrated circuit
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Martel and his colleagues developed an electronic microcircuit that contains both the bacteria and an array of conductors that produce magnetic fields.
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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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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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