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qword en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /kjuː wɜːd/ (UK)
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Meanings

  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

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qwords Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

word · dword · ymmword · xmmword