Meanings
nounquadlet (plural quadlets)
plural quadlets
computingA word consisting of four bytes.The quadlets are time aligned for accuracy so that they may be loaded into the FIFO registers which are 32 bits wide and 64 quadlets deep.
2000, Ian Robertson Sinclair, Practical electronics handbook, page 257
A group of four similar or equal things, especially of rocket fuel injectorsThe unlike-impinging quadlet has been used rather extensively in space-vehicle engines.
1976, NASA, “2.1.1.1: Element Selection”, in Liquid Rocket Engine Injectors, page 14
Translations
French quartet
- quartetA word consisting of four bytes.
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