Definition of "microcircuit" [microcircuit]

• An electric circuit consisting of miniaturized components. (noun)

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• "Wessel says that perhaps the microcircuit is the orange clownfish Marlin and the Blue Brain is the blue regal tang Dory and together they are searching for Nemo: an understanding of how consciousness emerges from the soggy three-pound mass of nerve and glial cells we call the brain."
• "Said EMP has deactivated every electrical system and high-tech microcircuit in this building and for several blocks around, so trying to flip any alarm would be quite futile."
• "The shiny new microcircuit elements lay in straight, neat rows encased in padded containers."