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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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Some of the better-known quality models include those proposed by McCabe in which software complexity is a function of the number of conditional statements in the code, and those of Halstead in which software complexity is a function of the number of operators and operands (Ogasawara, Yamada, & Kojo, 1996).
With this encoding, default operand size is 32 bits and default address size is 64 bits.
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