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Definition of the noun adder

What does adder mean as a name of something?

noun - plural: adders

1. a person who adds numbers
   • lexical domain: People - nouns denoting people
   • more generic words: calculator / computer / estimator / figurer / reckoner = an expert at calculation
2. a machine that adds numbers
   • lexical domain: Artifacts - nouns denoting man-made objects
   • more generic terms: calculating machine / calculator = a small machine that is used for mathematical calculations
3. small terrestrial viper common in northern Eurasia
   • lexical domain: Animals - nouns denoting animals
   • scientific names: Coluber berus / species Coluber berus / Pelias berus / species Pelias berus / Vipera berus
   • synonym of adder: common viper
   • more generic word: viper = venomous Old World snakes characterized by hollow venom-conducting fangs in the upper jaw
   • member of: genus Vipera / Vipera = type genus of the Viperidae
   • geographic area: Europe and Asia
   • observational distribution: specimen and observational data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Network (not necessarily true occurrence density gradients)

     

Alternative definition of the noun adder

noun

1. [obsolete] A snake.
2. [British] A small venomous serpent of the genus Vipera. The common European adder is the Vipera (or Pelias) berus. The puff adders of Africa are species of the genus Clotho.
3. [US, Canada] Any of several small nonvenomous snakes resembling the adder, such as the milk snake.
4. Someone who or something which performs arithmetic addition.
5. Something which adds or increases.

Character

Adder is a fictional character from the novel series The Animals of Farthing Wood, written by Colin Dann. He appeared in all of the sequels in the series. Adder also made appearances in the animated children's television series The Animals of Farthing Wood based upon the books. Adder is, as her name suggests, an adder.

Music

"Adder" is a musical EP of Murlo.

• released on 12 August 2013

Miscellanea

Adder: In electronics, an adder or summer is a digital circuit that performs addition of numbers. In many computers and other kinds of processors, adders are used not only in the arithmetic logic unit, but also in other parts of the processor, where they are used to calculate addresses, table indices, and similar operations.

Phrases with Adder

Phrases starting with the word Adder:

1. adder fly
2. adder's fern
3. adder's-mouth
4. adder's tongue
5. adder's-tongue
6. adder's tongue fern
7. Adder's-Mouth Orchid

Phrases ending with the word Adder:

1. Full Adder
2. Half Adder
3. milk adder
4. puff adder
5. death adder
6. banded adder
7. checkered adder
8. Common death adder

Other phrases containing the word Adder:

1. green adder's mouth
2. Large Adder's-Tongue
3. Least Adder's-Tongue
4. Netted Adder's-Tongue
5. yellow adder's tongue

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Printed dictionaries and other books with definitions for Adder

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2nd Workshop on Libraries, Component Modeling, and Quality Assurance (1997)

by Universidad de Cantabria

The Hybrid CSA adder is a n-bits adder which is composed as follows: in the cell, the sum outputs are generated by a n-bit carry ripple adder structure. However, the...

Basic Electronics: For BPUT

by De

Adder is a combinational logic circuit is used to add A S= A + B Sum two or more bits.

Basic Electronics (2010)

by De Debashis

Half adder Half adder is a combinational logic circuit, which is used to add two bits and generate output as sum (S) and...

GATE Electrical Engineering 2016 (2015)

by Trishna Knowledge System

Adder. A binary adder is a digital circuit that produces the...

GATE Computer Science and Information Technology 2016 (2015)

by Trishna Knowledge

Adder. A binary adder is a digital circuit that produces...

The Boy's Own Book of Natural History (1867)

by John George Wood

The PUFF ADDER is an inhabitant of Southern Africa. It is a short, thick, flattish snake, of a most sinister and malignant aspect. The following alarming adventure occurred to Mr. Cole, a resident in the Cape.

Computer Organization and Design (2013)

The Hardware/Software Interface by David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy

The adder is an ALU wired to always add its two 32-bit inputs and place the sum on its output. which were introduced in Chapter 2 .

U.S. Army Survival Manual (2011)

by Peter T. Underwood

Characteristics: the puff adder is the second largest of the dangerous vipers. It is one of the most common snakes in Africa. It is largely nocturnal, hunting at night and seeking shelter during the day's heat. It is not shy when approached. It draws ...

Central European Functional Programming School (2015)

5th Summer School, CEFP 2013, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, July 8-20, 2013, Revised Selected Papers by Viktória Zsók, Zoltan Horvath, Lehel Csató

A Ripple-Carry Adder. The ripple-carry adder is a standard way to add integer numbers, and is an immediate translation to binary number representations of the usual way in which we add numbers by ...

Concise Encyclopedia of Computer Science (2004)

by Edwin D. Reilly

• A ripple-carry adder for two »-bit binary numbers is formed by connecting n full ...

Encyclopaedia Londinensis, or, Universal dictionary of arts, sciences, and literature (1810)

by John Wilkes (of Milland House, Sussex)

ADDER, /.fatter, attor, naddre, ...

Fiber Optics Standard Dictionary (2012)

by Martin Weik

Final Addend —s Partial Sum Carry HALF ADDER Carry Final Sum (Without Carry) Fig. B-3. A full binary adder that may be used in the arithmetic unit or control unit of a communications, computer, data processing, or control system. and only ...

A Dictionary of Computer Science (2016)

by Andrew Butterfield, Gerard Ekembe Ngondi, Anne Kerr

It is therefore also known as a binary adder. This operation is exemplified by the truth table shown in the diagram, where X is the sum and Co is the carry. From this it can be seen that binary addition may generate a carry to subsequent stages.

The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (2015)

by Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor

Historically ®an outback gossip ̄ was also known as a ® death adder ̄.

CRC Dictionary of Agricultural Sciences (2001)

by Robert Alan Lewis

adder, 1: part of the common name of any of a variety of venomous snakes, especially of the family Viperidae. 2: any of several harmless North American snakes such as Heterodon contortrix (puff adder; hognose snake; blowing adder; ...

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Quotes about Adder

An adder with its poisonous fangs taken out is nothing more than a piece of rope.
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Scrabble value of A₁D₂D₂E₁R₁

The value of this 5-letter word is 7 points. It is included in the first and second editions of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.

Anagrams of ADDER

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• DARED
• DEDRA
• DREAD
• DREDA
• EDDRA
• ERDDA
• READD

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