Superscalar

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A superscalar processor, architecture or pipeline.
Adjective
  1. 1
    Implementing instruction-level parallelism within a single processor, thereby allowing faster throughput than would otherwise be possible at the same clock speed. not-comparable

Etymology

From super- + scalar.

Related phrases

clock speed

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