carry-in

A location or program to which participants bring something, such as appliances brought to a repair shop or food brought to a gathering.

a carry-in shop; a carry-in party

A location or program to which participants bring something, such as appliances brought to a repair shop or food brought to a gathering.

A command that adds a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) to an accumulator for the current digit in an addition operation.

A simpler scheme is to connect the carry-ins and carry-outs of the units in a ripple chain. This approach is most common in chip design because the wiring for the carry-lookahead tree is hard to design and area-consuming.