microprogram: Meaning and Definition of

mi•cro•pro•gram

Pronunciation: (mī'kru-prō"gram, -grum), [key]
— n.
  1. a set of microinstructions that defines the individual operations that a computer carries out in response to a machine-language instruction.
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