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modchip

noun

Etymology

From mod + chip.

  1. inherited from *ċippian✻ — “to cut; hew”
  2. inherited from chippen
  3. derived from *ǵeyb-✻ — “to split; divide; germinate; sprout”
  4. inherited from *kippōną✻ — “to chip, chop”
  5. inherited from *kippōn✻ — “to cut; carve; hack; chop”
  6. derived from *ċippian✻
  7. inherited from ċipp — “chip; small piece of wood, shaving”
  8. inherited from chip
  9. compounded as modchip — “mod + chip”

Definitions

  1. A computer chip or similar hardware device used to modify the behaviour of a games…

    A computer chip or similar hardware device used to modify the behaviour of a games console.

    • Installing a new hard drive would require a modchip that can reprogram or bypass the hard drive lock.
    • The goal of this hack is to install a modchip into your Xbox.
    • Sony argued that the access code reader was a 'technological protection measure' and that the 'modchip' was a 'circumvention device'.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for modchip. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA