Was (wer) ist word length - definition

BASE MEMORY UNIT HANDLED BY A COMPUTER

Computer word; Word size; Word length; Wordlength; 10-bit; Halfword; Dword (Computer); Qword; Machine word; DWORD; DWord; Dword; Data word; Double word; Word orientation; Word-oriented; Word oriented; Word (unit); Word (data type); Word width; Memory word; Bitness; Binary word; Variable word-length computer; Variable word-length architecture; Variable word-length machine; Variable word length architecture; Variable word length computer; Variable word length machine; Variable word architecture; Variable word-length (computer hardware); Variable word length (computer hardware); 32-bit word; 32bit word; Catena (unit); Catena (computing); Catenae (unit); Catenae (computing); Storage word; 16-bit word; 16 bit word; 32 bit word; 48-bit word; 48 bit word; 51 bit word; 51-bit word; 60-bit word; 60 bit word; 64 bit word; 64-bit word; 96 bit word; 96-bit word; Word size (computing); Quarterword; Variable word length; Fullword; Kiloword

Word (computer architecture)

In computing, a word is the natural unit of data used by a particular processor design. A word is a fixed-sized datum handled as a unit by the instruction set or the hardware of the processor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)

word size

<processor> The number of bits that a CPU can process at one time. Processors with many different word sizes have existed though powers of two (8, 16, 32, 64) have predominated for many years. A processor's word size is often equal to the width of its external data bus though sometimes the bus is made narrower than the CPU (often half as many bits) to economise on packaging and circuit board costs. (1995-04-23)

MS Word

WORD PROCESSOR SOFTWARE BY MICROSOFT

MS Word; Word document; Normal.dot; MS word; Ms word; Word for windows; Microsoft word; Ms Word; Pocket Word; Word file; Word for Windows; Mircosoft word; Microsoft Word 2004; Winword; WinWord; Windows Word; WINWORD; WINWORD.EXE; Winword.exe; Multi-Tool Word; Sample Text in Microsoft Word; Msword; Word (software); Microsoft(r) Word; MicrosoftWord; Microsoft Word 2000; Microsoft Word 2002; Word 2000; Microsoft Word XP; Microsoft Office Word; Word Web App; Word 2007; Word 2003; Office Word; Microsoft® Word 2010; Microsoft® Office Word 2007; Microsoft Word:mac; Word (Microsoft); Microsoft Word 3.0; Microsoft Word 98; Word for Windows 6.0; Macros in Microsoft Word; Microsoft Word file formats; Word (program); Word (app); Word (application)

Microsoft Word

Wikipedia

Word (computer architecture)

In computing, a word is the natural unit of data used by a particular processor design. A word is a fixed-sized datum handled as a unit by the instruction set or the hardware of the processor. The number of bits or digits in a word (the word size, word width, or word length) is an important characteristic of any specific processor design or computer architecture.

The size of a word is reflected in many aspects of a computer's structure and operation; the majority of the registers in a processor are usually word-sized and the largest datum that can be transferred to and from the working memory in a single operation is a word in many (not all) architectures. The largest possible address size, used to designate a location in memory, is typically a hardware word (here, "hardware word" means the full-sized natural word of the processor, as opposed to any other definition used).

Documentation for older computers with fixed word size commonly states memory sizes in words rather than bytes or characters. The documentation sometimes uses metric prefixes correctly, sometimes with rounding, e.g., 65 kilowords (KW) meaning for 65536 words, and sometimes uses them incorrectly, with kilowords (KW) meaning 1024 words (2¹⁰) and megawords (MW) meaning 1,048,576 words (2²⁰). With standardization on 8-bit bytes and byte addressability, stating memory sizes in bytes, kilobytes, and megabytes with powers of 1024 rather than 1000 has become the norm, although there is some use of the IEC binary prefixes.

Several of the earliest computers (and a few modern as well) use binary-coded decimal rather than plain binary, typically having a word size of 10 or 12 decimal digits, and some early decimal computers have no fixed word length at all. Early binary systems tended to use word lengths that were some multiple of 6-bits, with the 36-bit word being especially common on mainframe computers. The introduction of ASCII led to the move to systems with word lengths that were a multiple of 8-bits, with 16-bit machines being popular in the 1970s before the move to modern processors with 32 or 64 bits. Special-purpose designs like digital signal processors, may have any word length from 4 to 80 bits.

The size of a word can sometimes differ from the expected due to backward compatibility with earlier computers. If multiple compatible variations or a family of processors share a common architecture and instruction set but differ in their word sizes, their documentation and software may become notationally complex to accommodate the difference (see Size families below).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word (computer architecture)

Aussprachebeispiele für word length

1. long-looking words, suggest we could measure word length

The Language of Food _ Dan Jurafsky _ Talks at Google

2. And I wanted to have variability of word length as well.

#! Computer Generated Poetry _ Nick Montfort _ Talks at Google

Beispiele aus Textkorpus für word length

1. Students can submit poetry and stories with an exact 50–word length to the "Extremely Short Story Competition" at http÷//50words.org Compiled from WAM and staff reports

2. Students compile points based on the average sentence length, average word length, word difficulty level and total words in each book, and they sometimes get prizes from their schools.