qword

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UK/kjuː wɜːd/

noun

A quadword: four words, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus 64 bits.

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Meanings

nounqword (plural qwords)

plural qwords

  1. computingA quadword: four words, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus 64 bits.

    On line 7, "X" and "Y" are defined to be qwords. Therefore, each is eight bytes long — the size of a double in C.

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

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APA

qword. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/qword

MLA

“qword.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/qword. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “qword,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/qword.

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