doubleword

English edit

Etymology edit

double +‎ word

Noun edit

doubleword (plural doublewords)

(computing) 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 edit

dword

See also edit

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