word
- noun
- /wɜrd/
- Specialized
- To address this question, we compared word processing times for high- and low-frequency words embedded in the reading passages.
- word storage
- bits per word
- instruction word
You keep your code words three edges apart.
- You keep your code words three edges apart.
- In MS-DOS, Microsoft's version of DOS, all those little words are the names of device files.
Examples
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Dual units and quad-word storage references can load up to four FPRs per cycle.
Academic text (1994) -
We no longer care whether memory is updated a byte or a word at a time.
Academic text (2012) -
Plus, I use a word processor, not a typewriter.
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If students are expected to write regularly on word processors, they need to learn basic typing skills.
Academic text (1993) -
Understands basic personal computer operations and uses basic computer applications such as word processors, spreadsheets, and presentation software.
Academic text (2008) -
Use proper citations to document any sources of information used in the word-processed report.
Academic text (2008) -
Load the machine word containing both b1 and b2 into a machine register.
Academic text (2012) -
New instructions provide performance opportunities: quad-word floating-point storage references, square root, and convert to integer.
Academic text (1994) -
Subjects rated adaptive living skills, orientation and mobility, and word processing as the most valuable coursework.
Academic text (1992) -
The program processes a word as a fixed-length sequence of bits in computer memory.
Idioms
To think carefully about what you have done and decide to act differently
Compounds
- Formal
Sacred writings and teachings believed to come from God that give guidance for living
- Specialized
A program on a computer for writing, editing and printing text documents
- Literature
Words or phrases that avoid saying something clearly and often make people believe something untrue
A word made from two words that often has a new meaning, like toothpaste or watchdog
- Informal
A polite way to mention the word love when someone feels awkward saying it
- Specialized
A word from a small fixed set that helps show grammar, like in or and
- Specialized
A word that shows person, place and time compared to the speaker or listener
- Offensive
A short rude English word of four letters that insults someone
- Specialized
A word that enters a language because of a mistake, like a misprint, and has no real use
- Specialized
A word at the top of a dictionary page showing the first or last entry on that page
- Specialized
A general word that includes more specific words like bird for sparrow
- Slur
A rude word used to insult people with an intellectual disability, replaced by the letter R
- Specialized
A word that names a more specific kind than a general word, like 'poodle' for 'dog'
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Word was borrowed by computing to mean a fixed unit of data because a 'word' is a basic chunk of meaning in language. So a computer 'word' is a basic chunk of information that the machine uses.