What does "qword" mean?

A quadword: four words, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus 64 bits.

What is a synonym for "qword"?

Common synonyms include: dword, quadword.

//kjuː wɜːd// noun

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Noun

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A quadword: four words, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus 64 bits.
"On line 7, "X" and "Y" are defined to be qwords. Therefore, each is eight bytes long — the size of a double in C."

"On line 7, "X" and "Y" are defined to be qwords. Therefore, each is eight bytes long — the size of a double in C."

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