Part of the Computing fundamentals glossary:

1) In computers, an operand is the part of a computer instruction that specifies data that is to be operating on or manipulated and, by extension, the data itself. Basically, a computer instruction describes an operation (add, subtract, and so forth) and the operand or operands on which the operation is to be performed.

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2) In mathematics, an operand is the object of a mathematical operation.

This was last updated in January 2006
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