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ASCII
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(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
Synonyms:
American Standard Code for Information Interchange; ASCII
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("ASCII" is a kind of...):
code; computer code ((computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions)
Meronyms (parts of "ASCII"):
ASCII character (any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
