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carry-outs

carry-outs is the plural of carry-out.

Meaning of carry-out

Noun

carry-out (plural carry-outs)

  1. A command that exports a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) from the current column of 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-outs

What is carry-outs the plural of?
Carry-outs is the plural of carry-out.

Words near carry-outs in the dictionary

  1. carry-lookahead
  2. carry-lookaheads
  3. carry-on
  4. carry-ons
  5. carry-out
  6. carry-outs
  7. carryability
  8. carryable
  9. carryables
  10. carryall
  11. carryalls

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