Multicycle

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A kind of bicycle designed to carry more than two riders.
  2. 2
    A velocipede with more than three wheels; specifically, one developed in the 19th century with seven pairs of wheels, capable of carrying five to twelve people but steered by only one.
Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to more than one cycle. not-comparable

    "Mark Hill suggested dropping the multicycle processor implementation and instead adding a multicycle cache controller to the memory hierarchy chapter. This allowed the processor to be presented in a single chapter instead of two."

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"Mark Hill suggested dropping the multicycle processor implementation and instead adding a multicycle cache controller to the memory hierarchy chapter. This allowed the processor to be presented in a single chapter instead of two."

Etymology

From multi- + cycle.

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