superscalar

adj, noun — 2 senses

superscalar

adj

Etymology From super- + scalar.

1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Of a CPU architecture Implementing instruction-level parallelism within a single processor, thereby allowing faster throughput than would otherwise be possible at the same clock speed.

superscalar

noun

Etymology From super- + scalar.

1

A superscalar processor, architecture or pipeline.

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