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

Depending on how they are stimulated, the same device can act as a memory element, a logic gate, a selector, an analog processor, or an electronic synapse.

From Science Daily • Jan. 3, 2026

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

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2024

They perform a computer’s basic logic gate operations—that is, adding, subtracting or otherwise manipulating the bits—in billionths of a second.

From Scientific American • Jul. 5, 2017

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