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operand
The part of a machine instruction that references data or a peripheral device. In the instruction, ADD A to B, A and B are the operands (nouns), and ADD is the operation code (verb). In the instruction READ TRACK 9, SECTOR 32, track and sector are the operands.
operand
a quantity or function upon which a mathematical or logical operation is performed
operand [′äp·ə‚rand]
(computer science)
Any one of the quantities entering into or arising from an operation.
(programming)operand - An argument of an operator or of a machine language instruction.
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An operation may have one or more operands specified as XML attributes.
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In these virtual machines, most instructions implicitly take most of their operands from a stack and store most of their results back onto the same stack.
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That is, 3 x 5 does not access the same cognitive representations as 5 x 3, despite the fact that the operands and the results are the same.
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