n. An electronic device, usually fabricated by photolithography, that is very small and implements several components or their equivalent; an integrated circuit.
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n. a microelectronic computer circuit incorporated into a chip or semiconductor; a whole system rather than a single component
Word Usage
"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."