gate
*[geit]
n. 门, 牌楼, 大门, 通道, 闸
vt. 装门于
门的原始作用就显示出来了，就是为了在主人自由进出的同时，保护私有财产的安全。
如果加了-ed，就代表使用了动词性，相当于给谁谁加了一个门，限制其行为的自由度。比如
《User’s Guide OpenPOWER POWER9 Performance Monitor Unit》
Counts instructions completed and cycles gated by the run latch in individual (dedicated) 32-bit counters. The counting of these events can be enabled by software based on several conditions such as problem or supervisor state and tags active or inactive.
这一句里的gated，说明将cycle进行了特定的限制，以达到减小电力消耗的目的。具体是怎么添加的？
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_gating
从下面这个资料里可以看到这个gate的添加的具体实现；可以看到通过加入gate信号来将降低频率。以达到少干活，从而达到节省电力的目的。
https://www.princeton.edu/~mrm/tutorial/hpca2001_tutorial.pdf
这样造词的趋向就明显了
《Deterministic Clock Gating for Microprocessor Power Reduction》
Pipeline balancing (PLB), a previous technique, is essentially a methodology to clockgate unused components whenever a program’s instruction-level parallelism is predicted to be low.
这里就是专门为clock设置了一个门，然后将这个时钟门作为一个动词来用。clockgate。