multicycle

noun, adj — 3 senses

multicycle

noun

Etymology From multi- + cycle.

A kind of bicycle designed to carry more than two riders.

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.

multicycle

adj

Etymology From multi- + cycle.

Of or pertaining to more than one cycle.

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.2009, David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy, Computer organization and design: the hardware/software interface, page xix:

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