Usually means: Binary system for representing negatives.
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General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. two's complement: Merriam-Webster
  2. two's complement: Wiktionary
  3. twos complement: Dictionary.com
  4. Two's complement, Twos complement: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. twos complement: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Two's-complement, Twos'-complement, Twos-complement, two's complement, twos complement: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (two's complement)

noun:  (computing) The number obtained by complementing every bit of a given number and adding one. A number and its complement add to 2ⁿ, where n is the word size of the machine.
noun:  (computing) The convention by which bit patterns with high bit 0 represent positive numbers from 0 to 2ⁿ⁻¹-1 directly, while bit patterns with high bit 1 represent negative numbers from −1 to -2ⁿ⁻¹, n being the word size of the machine, and the numeric complement of a number is its two's complement.


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