shift register

noun

noun

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A 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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