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How to use microchip in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun, verb

Microchip means an integrated circuit. Example: “By the early 2020s, the strategic priority level of microchip fabrication prowess and capacity had only grown.”

Examples of microchip by meaning

nounA microprocessor.

  • By the early 2020s, the strategic priority level of microchip fabrication prowess and capacity had only grown.
  • The base of the antenna contains a few microchips, whose purpose Hiro cannot divine by looking at them.1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 360
  • And so the microchip, say, reflects a certain electronically driven speed of society, just as the invention of a flint axe, reflected a society that was rhythmed fully by biological and environmental temporalities.2017, Robert Hassan, The Age of Distraction

verbTo fit (an animal) with a microchip.

  • Still, doing something to protect your cat is better than doing nothing, so you should have your cat microchipped in the groin area with a registered ID.1997, Paulette Cooper, Paul Noble, Jack Fleming, 277 Secrets Your Cat Wants You to Know
  • In Britain, where the British BeeKeepers Association (BBKA) has been urging members to microchip their hives for some time, the continuing mystery and the belief that the crimes are inside jobs are taking their toll.2017 September 23, “From north Wales to Norfolk, distraught beekeepers ask: who’s stealing our hives?”, in The Observer
  • In February, Skip Daly, a Democrat in the Nevada State Assembly, introduced a bill to make involuntary microchip implants illegal; he later amended it to include voluntary microchipping as well.2019 May 21, Zoltan Istvan, “A Chip in My Hand Unlocks My House. Why Does That Scare People?”, in The New York Times

verbTo cause microscopic chips (abrasions) in a material.

  • The velocity imparted to the abrasive particles causes microchipping and erosion as the particles impinge on the workpiece.1992, ASM Materials Engineering Dictionary

More sentences with microchip

  • The fabless semiconductor company recently finished designing its new line of microchips.From the entry fabless
  • The technician reportedly used a microchip card-reader that didn’t have the storage capacity to hold the total number of early votes cast.2019 November 25, Thomas B. Langhorne, “Official: Mistrust isn’t enough”, in Evansville Courier & Press, volume 175, number 323, page 3A…. From the entry card-reader
  • The students he was hanging out with back then are all millionaire microchip engineers now, but even among them, he was a natural.2014, Lee Henderson, The Road Narrows as You Go, Toronto, Ont.: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry synesthesiac
  • The Chester Zoo scientists wanted to use captive achoques to test a new tagging method — small, rice grain-sized microchips — before deploying them on wild individuals.2025 November 18, “Scientists & nuns unite to save Mexico’s rare achoque salamanders”, in Shreya Dasgupta, editor, Mongabay, archived from…. From the entry achoque
  • Fig. 0.3 is an image of the front and back views of a drug delivery microchip made of silicon and painted with gold, with a U.S. dime (10 cents).2007, Elisabeth S. Papazoglou, Aravind Parthasarathy, Bionanotechnology, page 6. From the entry chip
  • If you're trying to control that wet noodle, there's got to be a lot of intelligence behind it in the way of microchips actually out there doing the controlling."1990, The Mathematica Journal - Volumes 1-2, page 115. From the entry wet noodle

Meaning of microchip

  1. noun An integrated circuit.
  2. noun A microprocessor.
  3. verb To fit (an animal) with a microchip.

Full definition of microchip

Questions about microchip in a sentence

How do you use microchip in a sentence?
Microchip is used as a noun and verb. For example: “By the early 2020s, the strategic priority level of microchip fabrication prowess and capacity had only grown.”
What is a short sentence with microchip?
“The fabless semiconductor company recently finished designing its new line of microchips.”
What does microchip mean?
Microchip means an integrated circuit.

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