Flake and Microprocessor

flake

A crystal of snow.
- synonyms: snowflake
A person with an unusual or odd personality.
- synonyms: eccentric, eccentric person, oddball, geek
A small fragment of something broken off from the whole.
- usage: "a bit of rock caught him in the eye"
- synonyms: bit, chip, fleck, scrap

Form into flakes.
- usage: "The substances started to flake"
Cover with flakes or as if with flakes.
Come off in flakes or thin small pieces.
- usage: "The paint in my house is peeling off"
- synonyms: peel off, peel, flake off

(n.) A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything; a film; flock; lamina; layer; scale; as, a flake of snow, tallow or fish.
(n.) A paling; a hurdle.
(n.) A small stage hung over a vessel's side, for workmen to stand on in calking, etc.
(v.i.) To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
(v.t.) To form into flakes.
(n.) A platform of hurdles or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things.
(n.) A little particle of lighted or incandescent matter, darted from a fire; a flash.
(n.) A sort of carnation with only two colors in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
(n.) A flat layer or fake, of a coiled cable.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

microprocessor

Integrated circuit semiconductor chip that performs the bulk of the processing and controls the parts of a system.
- usage: "a microprocessor functions as the central processing unit of a microcomputer"; "a disk drive contains a microprocessor to handle the internal functions of the drive"