Superscalar

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  superscalar
       
           A superscalar architecture is a {uniprocessor}
          that can execute two or more {scalar} operations in parallel.
          Some definitions include {superpipelined} and {VLIW}
          architectures; others do not.  Superscalar architectures


          (apart from superpipelined architectures) require multiple
          {functional unit}s, which may or may not be identical to each
          other.  In some superscalar processors the order of
          instruction execution is determined statically (purely at
          compile-time), in others it is determined dynamically (partly
          at run time).