autoincrement
Speech parts
1. autoincrement - Noun
2. autoincrement - Verb
Meaning
autoincrement (third-person singular simple present autoincrements, present participle autoincrementing, simple past and past participle autoincremented)
(computing) To increment automatically.
autoincrement (plural autoincrements)
(computing) An automatic increment.
Examples
Instructions used autoincrement, autoclear and indirect access to increase the software's speed, reduce memory use and substitute inexpensive memory for expensive registers.
In one cycle, it does a floating-point multiply, a floating-point add, and two autoincrement loads.
Unlike some other processors, autoincrement of the base register was not provided; the only exception was a "top of stack" addressing mode that would pop sources and push destinations.