operand

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English

Etymology

From Late Latin operandum.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒpəɹænd/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈɑpəˌɹænd/, /ˌɑpəˈɹænd/
Audio (US): (file)
Rhymes: -ænd

Noun

operand (plural operands)

(mathematics, computing) A quantity to which an operator is applied (in $3-x$ $3-x$ , the operands of the subtraction operator are 3 and $x$ $x$ ).
- 1992, Michael A. Miller, The 68000 Microprocessor Family: Architecture, Programming, and Applications, page 47:
  When the microprocessor decodes the JSR opcode, it stores the operand into the TEMP register and pushes the current contents of the PC ($00 0128) onto the stack.

Translations

quantity to which an operator is applied

Danish: operand c
Esperanto: operando
Finnish: operandi (fi), laskettava (fi)
French: opérande (fr) m
Greek: τελεστέος (el) m (telestéos)
Icelandic: þolandi m
Ido: operacario
Italian: operando (it) m
Japanese: 被演算子 (ひえんざんし, hienzanshi)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: operand m
Portuguese: operando (pt)
Romanian: operand
Russian: опера́нд (ru) m (operánd)
Swedish: operand (sv)
Turkish: işlenen (tr)

Anagrams

aproned, padrone, pandore

Danish

Noun

operand

operand

Declension

Declension of operand

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	operand	operanden	operander	operanderne
genitive	operands	operandens	operanders	operandernes

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