gisti
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈcɪstɪ/
- Rhymes: -ɪstɪ
Noun
gisti n (genitive singular gistis, nominative plural gisti)
- (computing) register, the part of the central processing unit used to store and manipulate numbers
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | gisti | gistið | gisti | gistin |
| accusative | gisti | gistið | gisti | gistin |
| dative | gisti | gistinu | gistum | gistunum |
| genitive | gistis | gistisins | gista | gistanna |
Derived terms
- alhliða gisti, allsherjargisti (“general-purpose register”)
- fastakommugisti (“fixed-point register”)
- fjórgisti (“quadruple register”)
- fjölgisti (“N-tuple register”)
- gistislengd (“register length”)
- grunngisti, grunnvistfangsgisti (“base register”)
- hlaupakommugisti (“floating-point register”)
- ígripsgisti (“interrupt register”)
- merkjagisti (“flag register”)
- reiknigisti (“arithmetic register”)
- rofgisti (“interrupt register”)
- skipunargisti (“instruction register”)
- stjakgisti (“shift register”)
- tímagisti (“clock register”)
- tvígisti (“double register”)
- vistfangsgisti skipunar (“instruction address register, program register, instruction pointer register”)
- vísigisti (“index register”)
- þrígisti (“triple-length register, triple register”)