dword

plural dwords

1. computingA numerical value of twice the magnitude of a word, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus 32 bits.

   The subtraction of each dword is independent of the other; there is no borrow from dword to dword.

   2003, Randall Hyde, The Art of Assembly Language

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   Using a double loop, each dword of the first factor is multiplied by each dword of the second factor […]

   1991, William B Giles, Assembly language programming for the Intel 80XXX family

   A bridge may combine posted memory writes to successive dwords into a single burst memory write transaction using linear addressing.

   1999, Don Anderson, Tom Shanley, PCI system architecture