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intrinsics

noun
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  1. 1
    noun
    Plural of intrinsic. Use it when you mean more than one.

    Game engines often use vector intrinsics to speed up graphics code.

    She rewrote the inner loop with SIMD intrinsics and cut its run time in half.

intrinsics is a form of intrinsic

intrinsic, noun: A built-in function that the compiler handles directly, without calling outside code. Full entry

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intrinsicintrinsics plural
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intrinsic → intrinsics: add -s
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The ending sounds like /s/.

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