Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

carry-lookahead

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.80 in modern English

Syllables: car-ry-looka-head
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A command that checks whether there will be a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) for the current digit in an ongoing addition operation.

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

carry-lookaheads (plural)

Questions

What does carry-lookahead mean?: A command that checks whether there will be a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) for the current digit in an ongoing addition operation.

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