ADDER

Adder

In electronics, an adder or summer is a digital circuit that performs addition of numbers.

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adder

Noun

  1. A snake.
  2. A name loosely applied to various snakes more or less resembling the viper; a viper.
  3. A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The is the . The puff adders of Africa are species of the genus .
  4. Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling the adder, such as the milk snake.
  5. The sea-stickleback or adder-fish.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition; a machine for adding numbers.
  2. Something which adds or increases.
    They sought out cost adders with an eye toward eliminating them.


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