Definition of Operand. Meaning of Operand. Synonyms of Operand

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Definition of Operand

Operand
Operand Op"er*and, n. [From neuter of L. operandus, gerundive of operari. See Operate.] (Math.) The symbol, quantity, or thing upon which a mathematical operation is performed; -- called also faciend.

Meaning of Operand from wikipedia

- mathematics, an operand is the object of a mathematical operation, i.e., it is the object or quantity that is operated on. Unknown operands in equalities...
- (TTA), only operand(s). Most stack machines have "0-operand" instruction sets in which arithmetic and logical operations lack any operand specifier fields;...
- units (GPUs). The inputs to an ALU are the data to be operated on, called operands, and a code indicating the operation to be performed (opcode); the ALU's...
- two-operand form a ← a + b can now use a non-destructive three-operand form c ← a + b, preserving both source operands. Originally, AVX's three-operand format...
- bitwise operations are presented as two-operand instructions where the result replaces one of the input operands. On simple low-cost processors, typically...
- Operand forwarding (or data forwarding) is an optimization in pipelined CPUs to limit performance deficits which occur due to pipeline stalls. A data...
- decrement operators are unary operators that increase or decrease their operand by one. They are commonly found in imperative programming languages. C-like...
- operator, often written ?:, is a binary operator that evaluates its first operand and returns it if its value is logically true (according to a language-dependent...
- representation of AND which does its work on the bits of the operands rather than the truth value of the operands. Bitwise binary AND performs logical conjunction...
- most modern and widely used. The and of a set of operands is true if and only if all of its operands are true, i.e., A ∧ B {\displaystyle A\land B} is...