MICROCODE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does microcode mean? 

• MICROCODE (noun)
  The noun MICROCODE has 1 sense:

1. (computer science) coded instructions that are stored permanently in read-only memory

  Familiarity information: MICROCODE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MICROCODE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(computer science) coded instructions that are stored permanently in read-only memory

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

firmware; microcode

Hypernyms ("microcode" is a kind of...):

code; computer code ((computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)