ascii
/ˈæski/
ascii noun: ascians. Also the alternative letter-case form of ASCII.
Noun
ascii pl (plural only)
- ascians
Proper noun capitalized: ASCII
ASCII
- 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.1989, D. Russell, The Principles of Computer Networking, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 218
- In 1960 American Standard Code for Information Exchange (ASCII) was developed from telegraphic codes.2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 127
- Synonyms:
- US-ASCII
Also used as
ascii is also the alternative letter-case form of ASCII.
Synonyms of ascii
Forms of ascii
| alternative form | ascii |
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Origin of ascii
From Latin asciī, plural of ascius, from Ancient Greek ἄσκῐος (áskĭos, “shadowless”).
Words formed from ascii
- ArmSCII
- ASCII armor
- ASCII art
- ASCIIbetical
- ASCIIfication
- ASCIIfy
- ATASCII
- extended ASCII
- PETSCII
- pure ASCII text
- US-ASCII
Questions about ascii
- What does ascii mean?
- Ascii means ascians.
- What part of speech is ascii?
- Ascii can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce ascii?
- Ascii is pronounced /ˈæski/.
Words near ascii in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ascii (page history and authors); ASCII (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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