"scatter/gather" meaning in English

See scatter/gather in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: gather [canonical]
Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} gather (not comparable)
  1. (computing) Being or relating to a form of I/O by which a single procedure call sequentially writes data from multiple buffers to a single data stream, or reads data from a stream into multiple buffers. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Computing
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