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shift registers

shift registers is the plural of shift register.

Meaning of shift register

Noun

shift register (plural shift registers)

  1. A register designed to subject data to a shift.
    • Shift registers, as Leibniz had demonstrated 260 years earlier, could perform binary arithmetic simply by shifting an entire row of binary digits one position to the right or left.2012, George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral, Penguin, published 2013, page 137

Questions about shift registers

What is shift registers the plural of?
Shift registers is the plural of shift register.

Words near shift registers in the dictionary

  1. shift off
  2. shift one's ground
  3. shift one's tides
  4. shift out
  5. shift register
  6. shift registers
  7. shift stick
  8. shift sticks
  9. shift the cut
  10. shift the deckchairs on the Titanic
  11. shift the dial

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