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writemasks

writemasks is the plural of writemask.

Meaning of writemask

Noun

writemask (plural writemasks)

  1. A bitmask which controls which bits are written to a memory location during some operation.
    • A destination element is not updated with the result of the operation if the corresponding writemask bit is not set. Instead, the destination element value must be preserved (merging-masking) or it must be zeroed out (zeroing-masking).2025 March, Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual, volume 1, page 15-9

Questions about writemasks

What is writemasks the plural of?
Writemasks is the plural of writemask.

Words near writemasks in the dictionary

  1. writedowns
  2. writee
  3. writees
  4. writeing
  5. writemask
  6. writemasks
  7. writeoff
  8. writeoffs
  9. writeprint
  10. writeprints
  11. writer

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