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ASCII

name
/ˈæski/

Etymology

From Latin asciī, plural of ascius, from Ancient Greek ἄσκῐος (áskĭos, “shadowless”).

  1. derived from ἄσκῐος — “shadowless”
  2. borrowed from asciī

Definitions

  1. Acronym of American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

    • Thus, to translate an EBCDIC message into an ASCII one we need a table with 256 one-byte entries. In each position we put the ASCII code that corresponds to that EBCDIC entry.
    • In 1960 American Standard Code for Information Exchange (ASCII) was developed from telegraphic codes.

  2. ascians

  3. Alternative letter-case form of ASCII.

    • The input text arrives as a sequence of ascii characters, which can be of any length.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ASCII. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA