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Categories: Digital circuits, Numeral systems, Unary operations

counter binary counter counters decade counter digital counter

(computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers) WordNet 3.0

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(computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

In digital logic and computing, a counter is a device which stores the number of times a particular event or process has occurred, often in relationship to a clock. Wikipedia

An electronic device, mechanical device, or computer program for counting Wikipedia Disambiguation

Device which stores the number of times a particular event or process has occurred Wikidata

A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count. Wiktionary

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programmable interval timer