NOR gate

noun

1. Computers. NOR circuit.

Word History and Origins

Origin of NOR gate¹

First recorded in 1965–70

Example Sentences

"Egad, he's right there!" cried the magistrate; "twenty years have worked a woful change both in my eyes and in my teeth; but, thank God, I can ride as fresh as any man after the hounds, and shirk neither fence nor gate."

From Project Gutenberg

Since the nobleman, frequenting the society of the most polished, is compelled to give himself a polished manner; since this manner, neither door nor gate being shut against him, grows at last an unconstrained one; since, in court or camp, his figure, his person, are a part of his possessions, and, it may be, the most necessary part,—he has reason enough to put some value on them, and to show that he puts some.

From Project Gutenberg

The transition from the wide forest to the park was only marked by a little improvement in the road; there was neither lodge nor gate—no wall, no fence, no inclosure of any kind.

From Project Gutenberg

At the base of this tree stood the stocks, that dungeon "all of wood" to which it is said there was "——neither iron bar nor gate, Portcullis, chain, nor bolt, nor grate, And yet men durance there abide In dungeon scarce three inches wide."

From Project Gutenberg

A thousand crannies in the walls are made; Nor gate nor bars exclude the busy trade.

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