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doubleword

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[duhb-uhl-wurd] / ˈdʌb əlˌwɜrd /
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noun

Computers.

  1. two bytes considered as a single storage entity, used in some high-level programming languages.

  2. two contiguous words (32 bits) starting at any byte address.

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