carry-out

English

Etymology

Deverbal from carry out.

Noun

carry-out (plural carry-outs)

  1. (computing) A command that exports a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) from the current column of an addition operation.
    • 2004, Wayne Wolf, FPGA-Based System Design‎:
      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.
  2. Alternative spelling of carryout.
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