gaterEtymologyFrom gate + -er.nounA mechanism that saves power in a circuit by removing the clock signal while the circuit is not in use.“Optimizing the selection of clock gaters based on activity is known as power-driven clock gating.”A component of a neural network that determines the probability that each member of a set of predictors will be selected.“In the same spirit, one can use a neural network called the gater to select which one out of several expert networks will be used to compute the output, given the current input.”