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carry-ins

carry-ins is the plural of carry-in.

Meaning of carry-in

Noun

carry-in (plural carry-ins)

  1. (attributive) 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
    1. (attributive, Ohio, Indiana, Chicago) A potluck (shared meal of foods contributed by guests).
  2. 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

Questions about carry-ins

What is carry-ins the plural of?
Carry-ins is the plural of carry-in.

Words near carry-ins in the dictionary

  1. carry water for
  2. carry weight
  3. carry-go-bring-come
  4. carry-go-bring-comes
  5. carry-in
  6. carry-ins
  7. carry-lookahead
  8. carry-lookaheads
  9. carry-on
  10. carry-ons
  11. carry-out

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