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dword

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (computing) A numerical value of twice the magnitude of a word, typically 32 bits.
  • * 1991 , William B Giles, Assembly language programming for the Intel 80XXX family
    • Using a double loop, each dword of the first factor is multiplied by each dword of the second factor...
  • * 1999 , Don Anderson, Tom Shanley, PCI system architecture
    • A bridge may combine posted memory writes to successive dwords into a single burst memory write transaction using linear addressing.
  • * 2003 , Randall Hyde, The Art of Assembly Language
    • The subtraction of each dword is independent of the other; there is no borrow from dword to dword.

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