quadword

English

Etymology

From quad- +‎ word.

Noun

quadword (plural quadwords)

  1. (computing) A numerical value of four times the magnitude of a word, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus 64 bits.
    Synonym: qword

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