carry-in
/ˈkɛɹi ˌɪn/UK/ˈkæɹi ˌɪn/
carry-in noun: a location or program to which participants bring something, such as appliances brought to a repair shop or food brought to a gathering.
Noun
carry-in (plural carry-ins)
- A location or program to which participants bring something, such as appliances brought to a repair shop or food brought to a gathering.
- a carry-in shop; a carry-in party
- A potluck (shared meal of foods contributed by guests).
- A command that adds a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) to an accumulator for the current digit in an addition operation.
- A simpler scheme is to connect the carry-ins and carry-outs of the units in a ripple chain. This approach is most common in chip design because the wiring for the carry-lookahead tree is hard to design and area-consuming.2004, Wayne Wolf, FPGA-Based System Design
Forms of carry-in
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Words that rhyme with carry-in
Questions about carry-in
- What does carry-in mean?
- Carry-in means a location or program to which participants bring something, such as appliances brought to a repair shop or food brought to a gathering.
- What part of speech is carry-in?
- Carry-in is a noun.
- How do you pronounce carry-in?
- Carry-in is pronounced /ˈkæɹi ˌɪn/ (UK).
- What is the plural of carry-in?
- The plural of carry-in is carry-ins.
Words near carry-in in the dictionary
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