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gater

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See also: gâter and 'Gater

English

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Etymology

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From gate +‎ -er.

Noun

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gater (plural gaters)

  1. A mechanism that saves power in a circuit by removing the clock signal while the circuit is not in use.
    • 2012, Rakesh Chadha, J. Bhasker, An ASIC Low Power Primer: Analysis, Techniques and Specification, page 118:
      Optimizing the selection of clock gaters based on activity is known as power-driven clock gating.
    • Patrick Lee, Introduction to Low-Power Design in VLSIs (page 125)
      With more clock buffers instead of gaters in the clock distribution, the power is significantly reduced based on Table 4-4.
  2. A component of a neural network that determines the probability that each member of a set of predictors will be selected
    • 2015, Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville, chapter 12, in Deep Learning, page 438:
      In the same spirit, one can use a neural network called the gater to select which one out of several expert networks will be used to compute the output, given the current input.

Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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gater m or f

  1. indefinite plural of gate

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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gater f

  1. indefinite plural of gate

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Gatter.

Noun

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gater n (plural gatere)

  1. sawmill

Declension

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singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative gater gaterul gatere gaterele
genitive-dative gater gaterului gatere gaterelor
vocative gaterule gaterelor