Carry-in

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A location or program to which participants bring something, such as appliances brought to a repair shop or food brought to a gathering. attributive

    "a carry-in shop; a carry-in party"

  2. 2
    A location or program to which participants bring something, such as appliances brought to a repair shop or food brought to a gathering.; A potluck (shared meal of foods contributed by guests). attributive
  3. 3
    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."

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"a carry-in shop; a carry-in party"

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