multicycle

plural multicycles

1. A kind of bicycle designed to carry more than two riders.
2. A velocipede with more than three wheels; specifically, one developed in the 19th century with seven pairs of wheels, capable of carrying five to twelve people but steered by only one.

1. not comparableOf or pertaining to more than one cycle.

   Mark Hill suggested dropping the multicycle processor implementation and instead adding a multicycle cache controller to the memory hierarchy chapter. This allowed the processor to be presented in a single chapter instead of two.

   2009, David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy, Computer organization and design: the hardware/software interface, page xix