gate

Definitions

• A doorlike structure outside a house.
• Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
• Movable barrier.
• (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
• (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
• The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
• (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
• Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
• (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
• In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
• (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
• The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
• (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary behind the aperture.
• A tally mark consisting of four vertical bars crossed by a diagonal, representing a count of five.