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left shift

The English word “left shift” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A bit shift to the left, in which all of the bits of an operand are shifted by a given number of positions to the left.
  2. The left shift operator; often given as << or <<<.

verb

  1. To perform a left shift bitwise operation.
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