Meanings
nounshift register (plural shift registers)
plural shift registers
- computingA register designed to subject data to a shift.
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.
2012, George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral, Penguin, published 2013, page 137
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