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bitness

bitness noun: the architecture of a computer system or program in terms of how many bits (binary digits) compose the basic values it can evaluate.

Noun

bitness (usually uncountable, plural bitnesses)

  1. (usually) The architecture of a computer system or program in terms of how many bits (binary digits) compose the basic values it can evaluate.
    • Execute an API or DLL call of the wrong bitness from within any of these programs and the result is an unrecoverable run-time error.1995 August, InfoWorld, volume 17, number 30
    • Thunking allows parameters to be pushed correctly on the stack, enables a DLL of a different bitness to load in your process, and converts memory addresses...1995, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft office 95 data access reference

Examples of bitness in a sentence

  • Since both user mode and kernel mode have the same "bitness," 16-bit and 32-bit stacks do not need to be distinguished.1997, Stan Mitchell, Inside the Windows 95 file system:
  • Table 7.1 summarizes the bitness requirements for TSPs under the various versions of TAPI and Windows.1998, Chris Sells, Windows telephony programming: a developer's guide to TAPI:

Forms of bitness

pluralbitnesses

Origin of bitness

From bit + -ness.

Questions about bitness

What does bitness mean?
Bitness means the architecture of a computer system or program in terms of how many bits (binary digits) compose the basic values it can evaluate.
How do you use bitness in a sentence?
Since both user mode and kernel mode have the same "bitness," 16-bit and 32-bit stacks do not need to be distinguished.
What part of speech is bitness?
Bitness is a noun.
What is the plural of bitness?
The plural of bitness is bitnesses.

Words near bitness in the dictionary

  1. bitmasks
  2. Bitmead
  3. Bitmeads
  4. Bitner
  5. Bitners
  6. bitness
  7. bitnesses
  8. BITNET
  9. Bitney
  10. Bito
  11. bitochki

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