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Ascii

Noun CEFR B1
ˈæski

Definitions

  1. ascians
    obsolete, plural, plural-only
  2. Alternative letter-case form of ASCII.
    alt-of, uncommon
  3. Acronym of American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

Equivalents

FrançaisASCII
PortuguêsASCII
ItalianoASCII
4 more languages
العربيةأسكي
EsperantoAskio
한국어아스키

Examples

Thus, to translate an EBCDIC message into an ASCII one we need a table with 256 one-byte entries. In each position we put the ASCII code that corresponds to that EBCDIC entry.”
“In 1960 American Standard Code for Information Exchange (ASCII) was developed from telegraphic codes.”
The input text arrives as a sequence of ascii characters, which can be of any length.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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