left shift
verb1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To perform a left shift bitwise operation.
- Antonyms
- right shift
- Related terms
- logical shift, arithmetic shift
left shift
noun1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A bit shift to the left, in which all of the bits of an operand are shifted by a given number of positions to the left.
2
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences The left shift operator; often given as << or <<<.