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w | dword |

As a letter w

is the twenty-third letter of the.

As a symbol w

is (label) symbol for tungsten.

As a noun dword is

(computing) a numerical value of twice the magnitude of a word, typically 32 bits.

w

Translingual

{{Basic Latin character info, previous=v, next=x, image= (wikipedia w)

Alternative forms

* vv (obsolete)

Letter

  • The twenty-third letter of the .
  • The first letter of (l) allocated to American broadcast television and radio stations east of the Mississippi river.

    • Symbol

    (Voiced labio-velar approximant) (head)
  • voiced labial-velar approximant

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * Turned: * * {{Letter , page=W , NATO=Whiskey , Morse=·–– , Character=W , Braille=? }} Image:Latin W.png, Capital and lowercase versions of W , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter W.png, Uppercase and lowercase W in Fraktur ----

    dword

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) A numerical value of twice the magnitude of a word, typically 32 bits.
  • * 1991 , William B Giles, Assembly language programming for the Intel 80XXX family
    • Using a double loop, each dword of the first factor is multiplied by each dword of the second factor...
  • * 1999 , Don Anderson, Tom Shanley, PCI system architecture
    • A bridge may combine posted memory writes to successive dwords into a single burst memory write transaction using linear addressing.
  • * 2003 , Randall Hyde, The Art of Assembly Language
    • The subtraction of each dword is independent of the other; there is no borrow from dword to dword.