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Meaning of x86 | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Any of a family of instruction set architectures based on that used by the Intel 8086 microprocessor.
  2. Specifically, the 32-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture.
  3. Specifically, the original, 16-bit version of the x86 instruction set architecture.
    rare

Equivalents

Français x86

Examples

“The x86 version of Windows 7 only supports a maximum of 4 GiB of RAM; 64-bit Windows can support a lot more.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

x86`lowbar`64 x86-16 x86-32 x86-64 x87 x̄á'islak̓ala

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