carry-in

English

Noun

carry-in (plural carry-ins)

1. (usually attributive) A location or program for which participants bring something, such appliances brought to a repair shop or food brought to a gathering (a carry-in shop or a carry-in party).
2. (computing) A command that adds a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) to an accumulator for the current digit in an addition operation.
   • 2004, Wayne Wolf, FPGA-Based System Design‎^[1]:

     A simpler scheme is to connect the carry-ins and carry-outs of the units in a ripple chain. This approach is most common in chip design because the wiring for the carry-lookahead tree is hard to design and area-consuming.

3. (Ohio, Indiana, Chicago) A potluck.