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doubleword

noun

Etymology

From double + word.

  1. inherited from *werdʰh₁om✻ — “word”
  2. inherited from *wurdą✻ — “word”
  3. inherited from *word✻
  4. inherited from word
  5. inherited from word
  6. compounded as doubleword — “double + word”

Definitions

  1. An area of storage double the size of the word in a particular system

    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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for doubleword. 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