quadword

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A numerical value of four times the magnitude of a word, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus 64 bits.

Word forms

quadword quadwords

Etymology

From quad- + word.

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