SILICON CHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does silicon chip mean? 

• SILICON CHIP (noun)
  The noun SILICON CHIP has 1 sense:

1. electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit

  Familiarity information: SILICON CHIP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SILICON CHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Electronic equipment consisting of a small crystal of a silicon semiconductor fabricated to carry out a number of electronic functions in an integrated circuit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

chip; micro chip; microchip; microprocessor chip; silicon chip

Hypernyms ("silicon chip" is a kind of...):

semiconductor; semiconductor device; semiconductor unit (a conductor made with semiconducting material)

Meronyms (parts of "silicon chip"):

integrated circuit; microcircuit (a microelectronic computer circuit incorporated into a chip or semiconductor; a whole system rather than a single component)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "silicon chip"):

biochip (a microchip that uses tiny strands of DNA to latch onto and quickly recognize thousands of genes at a time; intended for use in a biological environment)

DNA chip; gene chip (a microchip that holds DNA probes that form half of the DNA double helix and can recognize DNA from samples being tested)

memory chip (a RAM microchip that can be plugged into a computer to provide additional memory)

microprocessor (integrated circuit semiconductor chip that performs the bulk of the processing and controls the parts of a system)

Holonyms ("silicon chip" is a part of...):

computer; computing device; computing machine; data processor; electronic computer; information processing system (a machine for performing calculations automatically)