"quadword" meaning in English

See quadword in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: quadwords [plural]
Etymology: quad- + word Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|quad|word}} quad- + word Head templates: {{en-noun}} quadword (plural quadwords)
  1. (computing) A numerical value of four times the magnitude of a word, thus 64 bits on a 16-bit architecture. Categories (topical): Computing Synonyms: qword Related terms: doubleword, octoword

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for quadword meaning in English (1.4kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "quad",
        "3": "word"
      },
      "expansion": "quad- + word",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "quad- + word",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quadwords",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "quadword (plural quadwords)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with quad-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Computing",
          "orig": "en:Computing",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A numerical value of four times the magnitude of a word, thus 64 bits on a 16-bit architecture."
      ],
      "id": "en-quadword-en-noun-HV3M1IZF",
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "word",
          "word"
        ],
        [
          "bit",
          "bit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) A numerical value of four times the magnitude of a word, thus 64 bits on a 16-bit architecture."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "doubleword"
        },
        {
          "word": "octoword"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "qword"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "quadword"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "quad",
        "3": "word"
      },
      "expansion": "quad- + word",
      "name": "prefix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "quad- + word",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "quadwords",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "quadword (plural quadwords)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "doubleword"
    },
    {
      "word": "octoword"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms prefixed with quad-",
        "en:Computing"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A numerical value of four times the magnitude of a word, thus 64 bits on a 16-bit architecture."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "word",
          "word"
        ],
        [
          "bit",
          "bit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing) A numerical value of four times the magnitude of a word, thus 64 bits on a 16-bit architecture."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "qword"
    }
  ],
  "word": "quadword"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.