A single instruction can be written on the same line following the colon.

He carries out every single instruction my father gives him to the letter.

A single instruction can then operate on all these values in parallel.

Some processors have instructions to do this in a single instruction.

In the outline above the processor processes parts of a single instruction at a time.

Reading a single 16-bit instruction thus took four separate read operations.

Well, so we've taken that single instruction and broken it into these three micro operations.

Another important effect was that a single instruction could describe quite a complex sequence of operations.

The graphic can then be re-created with a single instruction in any page that needed it.

All of this fits into a single 48-bit instruction.