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s | bitness |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun bitness is

(computing) the architecture of a computer system or program in terms of how many bits compose the basic values it can deal with.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    bitness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (computing) The architecture of a computer system or program in terms of how many bits compose the basic values it can deal with.
  • * 1995 , InfoWorld (volume 17, number 30, August 1995)
    • Execute an API or DLL call of the wrong bitness from within any of these programs and the result is an unrecoverable run-time error.
  • * 1995 , Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft office 95 data access reference
    • Thunking allows parameters to be pushed correctly on the stack, enables a DLL of a different bitness to load in your process, and converts memory addresses...
  • * 1997 , Stan Mitchell, Inside the Windows 95 file system
    • Since both user mode and kernel mode have the same "bitness ," 16-bit and 32-bit stacks do not need to be distinguished.
  • * 1998 , Chris Sells, Windows telephony programming: a developer's guide to TAPI
    • Table 7.1 summarizes the bitness requirements for TSPs under the various versions of TAPI and Windows.