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Witness vs Bitness - What's the difference?

witness | bitness |

As nouns the difference between witness and bitness

is that witness is attestation of a fact or event; testimony while 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.

As a verb witness

is to furnish proof of, to show.

witness

English

Noun

(es)
  • Attestation of a fact or event; testimony.
    • She can bear witness , since she was there at the time.
  • * Shakespeare
    • May we with the witness of a good conscience, pursue him with any further revenge?
  • One who sees or has personal knowledge of something.
    • As a witness to the event, I can confirm that he really said that.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Thyself art witness I am betrothed.
  • * R. Hall
    • Upon my looking round, I was witness to appearances which filled me with melancholy and regret.
  • Someone called to give evidence in a court.
    • The witness for the prosecution did not seem very credible.
  • Something that serves as evidence; a sign.
  • * Bible, Genesis xxxi. 51, 52
    • Laban said to Jacob, This heap be witness', and this pillar be ' witness .

    Derived terms

    * expert witness * eyewitness * key witness * principal witness

    Verb

    (es)
  • To furnish proof of, to show.
    • This certificate witnesses his presence on that day.
  • * 1667': round he throws his baleful eyes / That '''witness'd huge affliction and dismay — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost , Book 1 ll. 56-7
  • To take as evidence.
  • *
  • To see or gain knowledge of through experience.
    • He witnessed the accident.
  • * R. Hall
    • This is but a faint sketch of the incalculable calamities and horrors we must expect, should we ever witness the triumphs of modern infidelity.
  • * Marshall
    • General Washington did not live to witness the restoration of peace.
  • To present personal religious testimony; to preach at (someone) or on behalf of.
  • * 1998 , "Niebuhr, Reinhold", Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy , volume 6?, page 842
    • Instead, Niebuhr's God was the God witnessed to in the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament, the Bible of the Christian world.
  • To see the execution of (a legal instrument), and subscribe it for the purpose of establishing its authenticity.
    • to witness a bond or a deed

    Synonyms

    * certify

    Anagrams

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    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.