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registerIn computing, a memory location that can be accessed rapidly; it is often built into the computer's central processing unit. Some registers are reserved for special tasks – for example, an instruction register is used to hold the machine-code command that the computer is currently executing, while a sequence-control register keeps track of the next command to be executed. Other registers are used for holding frequently used data and for storing intermediate results. register
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Aramis followed him most anxiously with his eyes, and Baisemeaux returned, placed the register upon the table, and turned over the leaves for a minute, and stayed at the letter M. From the nature of what he was now doing it was inferable that the place was not so populous as its register may have shown it to be. "Jacques," returned Defarge, drawing himself up, "if madame my wife undertook to keep the register in her memory alone, she would not lose a word of it--not a syllable of it. |
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