Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shift register

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.28 in modern English

Syllables: shift reg-is-ter
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A register designed to subject data to a shift.

Example Sentences

"Shift registers, as Leibniz had demonstrated 260 years earlier, could perform binary arithmetic simply by shifting an entire row of binary digits one position to the right or left."

Inflected Forms

shift registers (plural)

Questions

What does shift register mean?: A register designed to subject data to a shift.

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