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ripple carries

ripple carries is the plural of ripple carry.

Meaning of ripple carry

Noun

ripple carry (plural ripple carries)

  1. The situation where a logic circuit uses multiple full adders to add n-bit numbers, with each full adder taking the output of the previous one as an input.

Questions about ripple carries

What is ripple carries the plural of?
Ripple carries is the plural of ripple carry.

Words near ripple carries in the dictionary

  1. rippingness
  2. rippings
  3. ripple
  4. ripple box
  5. ripple boxes
  6. ripple carries
  7. ripple carry
  8. ripple effect
  9. ripple effects
  10. ripple mark
  11. ripple marks

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