adder
Totals things up
An adder is a venomous snake, particularly the common European viper.
In computing, an adder is a circuit that performs addition—a basic building block of processors.
The word also means one who adds: She's the adder of all the figures in our department.
The snake sense is older; the word originally meant any snake before narrowing to specific species.
Cunning, limbless reptile
- viperFanged toxic serpent
- scalesPlates or weighing devices
- slitherGlide smoothly, sinuously
- fangsSharp piercing teeth
venomous · copperhead · hognose · asp · herpetology · cold-blooded · reptilian · coil
serpent
Cunning, limbless reptile
fangs · venomous · copperhead · hognose · asp · herpetology · cold-blooded · reptilian · coil · strike
toxin
Biological-origin harm agent
- poisonHarmful ingested substance
- envenomationInjection of animal poison
- neurotoxinPoison attacking neural tissue
bite · antivenom · fang · gland · swelling · dangerous · lethal · hemotoxin · cytotoxin · injection
sum
Addition's result
addition · tally · accumulate · count · aggregate · increment · accumulator · register · summation · tabulate
- vipersviper, pit viper, copperhead, cottonmouth, rattlesnake
- reptileslizard, snake, turtle, crocodile, alligator
- British Wildlifered deer, badgers, grey squirrel, foxes, otter
- limbless animalscobra, python, viper, boa, mamba
- snakescobra, anaconda, boa, viper, python
- venomous creaturescobra, rattlesnake, scorpion, black widow, coral snake
addersubtractor
Device that removes quantities
reducer · subtracter · diminisher · divider · multiplier
adderconstrictor
Snake killing by compression
boa · python · boa constrictor · anaconda
- death adderHighly venomous elapid
- puff adderVenomous African snake