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microchippery en · NOUN

Etymology

From microchip + -ery.

Meanings

  1. (informal, uncountable) The use of microchips; microchips generally.
    • 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:
    • Internally, the new autofocus SLRs are loaded with solid-state microchippery and flexible circuit boards […] 1988, Popular Photography (volume 95, numbers 1-3)