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qword

/kjuː wɜːd/

qword noun: a quadword: four words, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus 64 bits.

Noun

qword (plural qwords)

  1. A quadword: four words, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus 64 bits.
    • On line 7, "X" and "Y" are defined to be qwords. Therefore, each is eight bytes long — the size of a double in C.1991, William B. Giles, Assembly language programming for the Intel 80XXX family

Forms of qword

pluralqwords

Questions about qword

What does qword mean?
Qword means a quadword: four words, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus 64 bits.
What part of speech is qword?
Qword is a noun.
How do you pronounce qword?
Qword is pronounced /kjuː wɜːd/ (UK).
What is the plural of qword?
The plural of qword is qwords.

Words near qword in the dictionary

  1. qwertyuiop
  2. qwertz
  3. qwertzu
  4. qwertzuiop
  5. Qwon
  6. qword
  7. qwords
  8. QXGA
  9. qy
  10. qy.
  11. qyoot

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