How to Use circuitry in a Sentence

circuitry

noun
  • The virus, having hitched a ride on neurons, is then free to move about the brain’s circuitry.
    NBC News, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The calls could also stem from damage to the circuitry in the Notkins’ phone, Rappaport said.
    Marisa Iati, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2021
  • The most advanced semiconductors have shrunk a chip’s circuitry to the size of a few atoms.
    Jiyoung Sohn, WSJ, 28 July 2022
  • The team already knew that retinoic acid can cue the gene circuitry to construct the hindbrain in complex species.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Feb. 2024
  • If the saw has a low threshold for thermal cutoff to protect the battery and circuitry, that will shut the saw off.
    Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The damage could cause a short circuit that, because there’s no fuse in the circuitry, could lead to overheating and a fire.
    Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 2 June 2023
  • With the treatment, wires go into the deep brain structures that are involved in the circuitry that produce the tics, to try to bring some relief.
    David Begnaud, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Researchers don’t know how long Sarah will need to have the device in her skull, or if depression circuitry in the brain changes over time.
    Isabella Cueto, STAT, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The charging circuitry is offloaded to the charger, and that ensures the device doesn’t overheat even with a 65W charge.
    Yoni Heisler, BGR, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Of course, the real arcades were often dark, cramped, and sweaty, with the odor of overheated circuitry.
    Michael J. Seidlinger, Wired, 15 Jan. 2022
  • The voyage, the pilgrimage, the vision quest are part of our mental circuitry.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Beneath her signature red-and-white dress was a circuitry board on her back.
    Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Never immerse the base of your slow cooker in any liquid; this will damage the circuitry of the unit and can be very dangerous.
    Samantha Hunter, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Feb. 2022
  • All of that degrades the performance of any circuitry built using the technique.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Once in the brain, caffeine alters the brain circuitry for sleep and wake patterns, and can trigger the wakefulness and alertness many seek.
    Kareem Clark, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2022
  • In mice, the transplanted cells spread throughout the hippocampus and repair the brain circuitry that causes seizures.
    Emily Mullin, Science, 5 Jan. 2022
  • One port of each SRAM is connected to the computer proper, while the other is exclusive to the video circuitry.
    IEEE Spectrum, 30 Oct. 2023
  • But beyond the arch, across a plain of circuitry, a futuristic skyline awaits.
    Jason Guriel, Longreads, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Using a hub enabled Mission to optimise the circuitry of the LX Connect.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • But recent research shows that acute stress also causes structural changes in the brain circuitry that can cause long-term harm on the nervous system.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • Components for integrated circuitry for each chip are placed on the wafer, one layer at a time.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Children who learned about the letters by typing or other means did not show the same activity in this circuitry.
    Nancy Olson, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • One of the things that helped enable the robot fish's efficiency is notable by its absence in the photo above: any sort of control circuitry.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2022
  • Give me your jellybean iMacs and your crystal-clear circuitry-revealing cases full of wires yearning to breathe free.
    Louryn Strampe, Wired, 31 Oct. 2021
  • The scheme, then called Morpheus, treats placing large pieces of circuitry, called macros, as a game, learning to find an optimal solution.
    IEEE Spectrum, 4 Apr. 2023
  • This means your headphones have built-in circuitry and software to actively drown out unwanted sounds around you.
    Mike Richard, Men's Health, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The brain circuitry that makes all this possible still requires further research, Long says.
    Hannah Seo, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2021
  • After that, the circuitry should be able to be replaced and the materials should be able to be melted down, recycled and used to create something new.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The downside to these projects so far is that sensitive circuitry doesn’t respond well to being crushed into a drawer or laundered.
    Drew Turney, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Executable commands could only be in the form of a yes or a no, an on-or-off switch of an electric current running through the circuitry of a computer control board.
    Jing Tsu, Wired, 23 Jan. 2022

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