doubleword
American
[duhb-uhl-wurd]
/ ˈdʌb əlˌwɜrd /
Or
double word
noun
Computers.
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two bytes considered as a single storage entity, used in some high-level programming languages.
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two contiguous words (32 bits) starting at any byte address.
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