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carry-out en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Deverbal from carry out.

Meanings

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:
2. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of carryout.
   alt of carryout

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