🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

registro a scorrimento

Pronunciation / Transliteration: reˈdʒi.stro a skorˈri.men.to

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Shift Register/ʃɪft ˈrɛdʒ.ɪ.stər/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #8500 frequency
Full Thesaurus
🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Il registro a scorrimento è fondamentale per la trasmissione seriale."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A digital circuit in a computer or other electronic device that can store and transfer data in a sequence of steps.

    "The microprocessor uses a shift register to convert serial data into parallel data."
  2. 2

    A cascaded group of flip-flops used for the temporary storage or transfer of binary information.

    "By pulsing the clock input, the bits within the shift register move one position to the right."

Thesaurus & Semantic Spectrum

Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'shift' (from Old English sciftan, meaning to divide, distribute, or move) and 'register' (from Medieval Latin registrum, referring to a list or official record, later adapted in electronics for a device that records data). It emerged during the mid-20th century with the advent of digital computing and electronic engineering to describe sequential logic circuits that shift binary data.

Quick Vocabulary Retention Check

Which of the following is the closest synonym for "Shift Register"?

10 Global Lexicons: How "Shift Register" is said worldwide

Click any language below to open its dedicated Language to English dictionary page with native script & transliteration

🇫🇷French → English

registre à décalage

Transliteration: ʁə.ʒistʁ a de.ka.laʒ

"Le registre à décalage transfère les données binaires de manière séquentielle."

🇩🇪German → English

Schieberegister

Transliteration: ˈʃiːbəʁeˌɡɪstɐ

"Das Schieberegister speichert und verschiebt digitale Daten."

🇮🇹Italian → English

registro a scorrimento

Transliteration: reˈdʒi.stro a skorˈri.men.to

"Il registro a scorrimento è fondamentale per la trasmissione seriale."

🇪🇸Spanish → English

registro de desplazamiento

Transliteration: reˈxistɾo de ðesplaθaˈmiento

"El registro de desplazamiento permite convertir datos serie en paralelo."

🇵🇹Portuguese → English

registrador de deslocamento

Transliteration: ʁeʒis.tɾaˈdoʁ dʒi dʒis.lu.kaˈmẽ.tu

"O registrador de deslocamento armazena bits sucessivamente."

🇮🇳Hindi → English

शिफ्ट रजिस्टर

Transliteration: shift rejistar

"डेटा को आगे बढ़ाने के लिए शिफ्ट रजिस्टर का उपयोग किया जाता है।"

🇨🇳Chinese → English

移位寄存器

Transliteration: yí-wèi jì-cún-qì

"移位寄存器是数字逻辑电路中常见的时序逻辑元件。"

🇰🇷Korean → English

시프트 레지스터

Transliteration: shifteu rejesteo

"시프트 레지스터는 데이터를 순차적으로 이동시키는 회로입니다."

🇯🇵Japanese → English

シフトレジスタ

Transliteration: shifuto rejisuta

"シフトレジスタはデータを右または左にシフトさせます。"

Thesaurus & Synonyms Graph

Explore Nuanced Synonyms for "Shift Register"

Discover exact matches, context-specific alternatives, and antonyms with intensity ratings in the VocabDictionary Thesaurus.

View "Shift Register" Synonym Map