May 15, 2003

shift left (or right) logical

[from any of various machines' instruction sets]

1. vi. To move oneself to the left (right). To move out of the way.

2. imper. Get out of my seat! You can shift to that empty one to the left (right). Often used without the logical, or as left shift instead of shift left. Sometimes heard as LSH /lish/, from the PDP-10 instruction set. See Programmer's Cheer.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:30 AM

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