Dictionary

dword en · NOUN

Etymology

From double word.

Meanings

1. A numerical value of twice the magnitude of a word, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus 32 bits.
   • A bridge may combine posted memory writes to successive dwords into a single burst memory write transaction using linear addressing. 1999, Don Anderson, Tom Shanley, PCI system architecture:
   • The subtraction of each dword is independent of the other; there is no borrow from dword to dword. 2003, Randall Hyde, The Art of Assembly Language:
   • Using a double loop, each dword of the first factor is multiplied by each dword of the second factor […] 1991, William B Giles, Assembly language programming for the Intel 80XXX family:

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Coordinates

qword