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fetch
Last modified: Thursday, May 13, 2004 

To load an instruction or piece of data from memory into a CPU's register. All instructions must be fetched before they can be executed. The time it takes to fetch an item is known as the fetch time or fetch cycle, and is measured in clock ticks.

 

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