Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ripple carry

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.40 in modern English

Syllables: rip-ple -car-ry
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The situation where a logic circuit uses multiple full adders to add n-bit numbers, with each full adder taking the output of the previous one as an input.

Inflected Forms

ripple carries (plural)

Questions

What does ripple carry mean?: The situation where a logic circuit uses multiple full adders to add n-bit numbers, with each full adder taking the output of the previous one as an input.

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