NOT gate
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of NOT gate
First recorded in 1955–60
Example Sentences
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A NOT gate had one wire going in and one wire coming out, and inverted the input wire.
From Slate
A NOT gate will take a single input and produce the opposite: a one produces 0, a zero produces 1.
From Scientific American
Monroe and his colleagues crafted a logic element called a controlled- NOT gate out of a beryllium ion.
From Scientific American
The problem was he went to Gate 9B, not Gate 9A.
From Washington Post
I am determined to put a stop to them, and indeed it is becoming a grave question with me whether I shall not gate the whole school during the remainder of the term.
From Project Gutenberg
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