Meaning of dword | Babel Free

Definitions

A numerical value of twice the magnitude of a word, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus 32 bits.

Examples

“Using a double loop, each dword of the first factor is multiplied by each dword of the second factor […]”

“A bridge may combine posted memory writes to successive dwords into a single burst memory write transaction using linear addressing.”

“The subtraction of each dword is independent of the other; there is no borrow from dword to dword.”

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