logic gate

American  

noun

Electronics.

1. gate.

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logic gate Scientific  

1. A device, usually an electrical circuit, that performs one or more logical operations on one or more input signals. Logic gates are the building blocks of digital technology.

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Etymology

Origin of logic gate

First recorded in 1960–65

Example Sentences

In this case, an "and" logic gate ensures that the drug activates only when both cancer markers are present, making the treatment highly selective.

From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2026

The team also demonstrated a fluidic logic gate that can be reprogrammed by changing the metafluid.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2024

But silicon-based qubits are well behind those based on ions or superconductors, with the first two-qubit logic gate reported only last year by a group at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 1, 2016

Researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark propose a new way to make a quantum logic gate that could become the building block of a new generation of atomtronic computing devices.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2012

If two balls arrive simultaneously at a logic gate, they will collide and their paths will change; their new paths represent the output of the gate.

From Scientific American • Jun. 1, 2011