Meanings
ascii1
- obsoletepluralplural onlyascians
ascii2
- uncommoncomputingAlternative letter-case form of ASCII.
The input text arrives as a sequence of ascii characters, which can be of any length.
2009, Paul Taylor, Text-to-Speech Synthesis, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 41
ASCII3
alternative ascii
- abbreviationacronymcomputingAcronym of American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
In 1960 American Standard Code for Information Exchange (ASCII) was developed from telegraphic codes.
2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 1271 more example
Thus, to translate an EBCDIC message into an ASCII one we need a table with 256 one-byte entries. In each position we put the ASCII code that corresponds to that EBCDIC entry.
1989, D. Russell, The Principles of Computer Networking, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 218Synonyms: US-ASCII
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noun(computer science) a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies; a string of 7 binary digits represents each character; used in most microcomputers
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Origin
- Ancient Greekἄσκῐος“shadowless”
- Latinasciī
- Englishascii
From Latin asciī, plural of ascius, from Ancient Greek ἄσκῐος (áskĭos, “shadowless”).
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Esperanto Askio
- AskioTranslations
French ASCII
- ASCIITranslations
Japanese ASCII (asukī), アスキー
- ASCII (asukī)Translations
- アスキー (asukī)Translations
Korean 아스키
- 아스키 (aseuki)Translations
Portuguese ASCII
- ASCIITranslations
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ascii. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ascii
“ascii.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ascii. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ascii,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ascii.
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