microarchitecturen.
/ˌmʌɪkrəʊˈɑːkᵻtɛktʃə/, U.S. /ˌmaɪkroʊˈɑrkəˌtɛk(t)ʃər/ 1. Chiefly Biology. Microscopic or small-scale structure (of a shell, tissue, organ, etc.).
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1954 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 40 39 Studies of skeletal micro-architecture [of marine organisms].
1965 Brit. Jrnl. Surg. 52 764 The mobile micro-architecture of dermal collagen: a bio-engineering study.
1991 T. H. Goldsmith Biol. Roots Human Nature v. 75 Behavior is determined by the microarchitecture of the nervous system—by an enormous number of specific functional connections..between nerve cells.
2000 Jrnl. Clin. Densitometry 3 187 Present therapies do not have the potential to mend damage to the bone microarchitecture caused by osteoporosis.
2. Computing. The structure of a computer system at the level of its constituent microprocessors, or the structure of an individual microprocessor.
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1975 (title) Workshop on the microarchitecture of computer systems.
1996 Byte Dec. 94/2 As the x86 moves through its fifth and sixth generations, microarchitectures are diverging to the point where clock speeds are no longer valid, even for shorthand comparisons.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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