The New York clearing house's computerized "Clearing House Interbank Payments System " Most Euro transactions are cleared and settled through CHIPS rather than over the FED wire
The common term for tokens, issued by a casino in place of money, and having the equivalent of cash
(wafers) (1) factory formed substrate on which electronic circuits are printed, usually a formulation including alumina, with high heat resistance; (2) a fingernail-sized "chip" of silicon that carries the circuitry for a computer; can have the equivalent of several thousand transistors and other electronic components
Thin-sliced and deep-fried potatoes sold in sealed bags; potato chips, nacho chips, etc
the product of a primary manufacturing process where trees and parts of trees are converted into chips or small pieces of wood, to be used to make paper products and building supplies
Although some misguided persons believe that these are in some way related to potatoes, generic they are in fact a completely different foodstuff These form the staple diet of many a Wadham student - in fact if you neglect to ask for any food at the serving hatch you get chips by default Although difficult, it is in fact possible to go a whole day without eating chips from the Wadham canteen
Wood chips produced by a chipper; used to produce pulp, fibreboard and particleboard, and also as fuel
Miniaturized microprocessors built on a single piece of silicon [Typically, less than 1/2-inch square, they contain all the essential elements of a central processor, including the control logic, instruction decoding and arithmetic processing circuitry Microprocessor chips are combined with memory and I/O integrated circuit chips to form a microcomputer, which usually fill no more than a single printed circuit board ]
Unpackaged diodes, bipolar transistors, SCRs, TRIACs, and field-effect transistors (FETs) - also called DICE
patates tava fried potatoes; french fries, fries, french fried potatoes, brit
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patates tava fried potatoes; French fries, fries, French fried potatoes, brit