negatern.
/nᵻˈɡeɪtə/, U.S. /nəˈɡeɪdər/ 1. A person who denies or rejects something.
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1962 C. Emery World Dylan Thomas 199 The contrast between the wrathful negater and the fiddling pardoner is, I think, intentional.
1993 C. Craig in G. Wallace Sc. Novel since Seventies ii. vii. 108 He is the negater of all the values which chain us to our social world as though it were the ultimate reality.
2. Computing. = inverter n. 2c.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > [noun] > electronic component, circuitry > semiconductor
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1962 Gloss. Terms Automatic Data Processing (B.S.I.) 60 Negater.
1971 J. H. Smith Digital Logic iv. 65 The British standard gives little guidance to the use of a digital buffer amplifier and the reader is recommended to use a single input NOR symbol as an inverting buffer (this is defined as a negater) and the amplifier symbol for the non-inverting buffer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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