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Word
Set of characters that occupies one storage location and is treated by the computer circuits as a unit. Ordinarily a word is treated by the control unit as an instruction and by the arithmetic unit as a quantity. See Byte.
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- Part of Speech: noun
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- Industry/Domain: Software
- Category: Video editing
- Company: Tektronix
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