shift register

English

Noun

shift register (plural shift registers)

1. (computing) A register designed to subject data to a shift.
   • 2012, George Dyson, Turing's Cathedral, Penguin, published 2013, page 137:

     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.