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  1. noun A small broken or cut off piece, as of wood, stone, or glass.
  2. noun A crack or flaw caused by the removal of a small piece.
  3. noun A small disk or counter used in poker and other games to represent money.
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  • The amount of change that Barry got from his chip was amazing—one golden aureus, and a handful of lesser silver and copper coins. —  Astounding, January 1943
  • That seems a little rough for a tender homecoming, but I remember that the Christopher chip is my conscience. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 04-05 - October-November 1994
  • In 1965, cramming sixty transistors onto a chip was a research project. —  AnalogSFF,September2008
  • Furthermore, the chip will be a lot smaller even though it packs a lot more transistors. —  DV Hardware
  • With 200,000 neurons linked up by 50 million synaptic connections, the chip is able to mimic the brain's ability to learn more closely than any other machine. —  Technology Review RSS Feeds
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  1. Middle English, from Old English cyp, beam, from Latin cippus.
  2. Imitative.
  3. Origin unknown.

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  1. from Middle English chippen, chyppen, cut into small pieces (not in Anglo-Saxon) (= Dutch kippen, pick out, hatch, Middle Dutch strike, knock, cut (later G. kippen, clip money), = Middle Low German kippen, hatch out, = Old Swedish kippa, chop), derived with reg. vowel-change from chop; but the forms and senses are partly mixed with those of other verbs: see chop and chip, n.
  2. Imitative; cf. cheep, and see chip, n., chip-bird, chipper, v., chipmunk, etc.
  3. from chip, v.
 

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