carry-in

English

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Noun

carry-in (plural carry-ins)

  1. (chiefly attributive) A location or program to which participants bring something, such as appliances brought to a repair shop or food brought to a gathering.
    a carry-in shop; a carry-in party
    1. (Ohio, Indiana, Chicago) A potluck (shared meal of foods contributed by guests).
  2. (computing) 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.
    • 2004, Wayne Wolf, FPGA-Based System Design‎[1]:
      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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