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Operand

Term · Computing and IT · MLC-T-CMP-000850

A component of an instruction in a computer program that specifies the data to be manipulated or operated upon by the instruction. It can be a literal value, a memory address, or a register containing the data. For example, in an addition instruction like "ADD A, B", A and B are the operands, while ADD is the operation code.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CMP-000850
FieldComputing and IT
SubjectTechnical
Record as JSON 
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  "subject": "Technical",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/computing/operand/"
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Record 939 of 1,553 in Computing and IT terminology (MLC-0101). Request the full dataset.