NAND circuit

[ nand ]

/ nænd /

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noun

Computers. a circuit that is energized when any one of its inputs is not energized.

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Also called NAND gate .

Origin of NAND circuit

First recorded in 1955–60

Words nearby NAND circuit

Nanchang, Nan-ching, Nanchong, Nancy, Nanda Devi, NAND circuit, Nandi, nandina, nandrolone, nanduti, nane

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How to use NAND circuit in a sentence

He went on to be a star on the international circuit all the way until his retirement in 2013.
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And in September 2008, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ordered the release of a 21-photo subset.
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She made the talk show circuit and wrote a book that garnered her a reported $4,000,000 advance.
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Take the case of Herx v. Diocese of Fort Wayne, an employment discrimination suit in the Seventh Circuit.
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Justice Sotomayor stopped gay marriages in Kansas before they even start thanks to a split among circuit courts.
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This Isthmus has a circuit of fully five hundred leagues and is occupied by the Soriquois tribe.
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There are nine of these courts, one for each circuit into which the United States is divided.
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At a circuit dinner, a counsellor observed to another, "I shall certainly hang your client."
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On a rocky islet in the centre of a fresh water pond two miles in circuit they commenced erecting a fort and store house.
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An attorney traveling with his clerk to the circuit, the latter asked his master what was the chief point in a lawsuit.
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British Dictionary definitions for NAND circuit

NAND circuit

NAND gate

/ (nÃ¦nd) /

noun

electronics a computer logic circuit having two or more input wires and one output wire that has an output signal if one or more of the input signals are at a low voltageCompare OR circuit

Word Origin for NAND circuit

C20: from not + and; see NOT circuit, AND circuit

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