Word.ws English Dictionary

doubleword

doubleword noun: 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.

Noun

doubleword (plural doublewords)

  1. 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.
    Synonyms:
    dword

Synonyms of doubleword

Forms of doubleword

pluraldoublewords

Origin of doubleword

From double + word.

Questions about doubleword

What does doubleword mean?
Doubleword means 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.
What part of speech is doubleword?
Doubleword is a noun.
What is the plural of doubleword?
The plural of doubleword is doublewords.

Words near doubleword in the dictionary

  1. doubletted
  2. doublettes
  3. doubleweight
  4. doublewide
  5. doublewides
  6. doubleword
  7. doublewords
  8. doubleyou
  9. doubleyous
  10. doubling
  11. doubling back

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: doubleword (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “doubleword.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/doubleword. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.