doubleword

noun

doubleword

noun

Etymology From double + word.

1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences An area of storage double the size of the word in a particular system; in a 16-bit architecture, this is equal to four bytes.

Synonyms
dword
Related terms
quadword, octoword

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