or circuit

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   a gate circuit in a computer that fires when any of its inputs fire

   SynonymsOR gate

   Broadergate

Questions about or circuit

What does or circuit mean?

or circuit means "a gate circuit in a computer that fires when any of its inputs fire".

What is another word for or circuit?

Close synonyms include OR gate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is or circuit a common word?

or circuit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.