carry-out

English

Etymology

Deverbal from carry out.

Noun

carry-out (plural carry-outs)

1. (computing) A command that exports a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) from the current column of an addition operation.
   • 2004, Wayne Wolf, FPGA-Based System Design‎^[1]:

     A simpler scheme is to connect the carry-ins and carry-outs of the units in a ripple chain. This approach is most common in chip design because the wiring for the carry-lookahead tree is hard to design and area-consuming.

2. Alternative spelling of carryout.