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microchippery

microchippery noun: the use of microchips; microchips generally.

Noun

microchippery (uncountable)

  1. (informal) The use of microchips; microchips generally.
    • Internally, the new autofocus SLRs are loaded with solid-state microchippery and flexible circuit boards […]1988, Popular Photography (volume 95, numbers 1-3)
    • It was a miracle of modern microchippery. It had a digital readout across the top, in red, that told him the number from which the incoming call was being made, provided the dialer punched the right code.2012, Larry Beinhart, You Get What You Pay For

Origin of microchippery

From microchip + -ery.

Questions about microchippery

What does microchippery mean?
Microchippery means the use of microchips; microchips generally.
What part of speech is microchippery?
Microchippery is a noun.

Words near microchippery in the dictionary

  1. microchimeric
  2. microchimerism
  3. microchimerisms
  4. microchip
  5. microchipped
  6. microchippery
  7. microchipping
  8. microchips
  9. microchiria
  10. microchiropteran
  11. microchiropterans

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