| 单词 | word length |
| 释义 | > as lemmasword length word length n. the length of a word as measured by the number of letters in it; (also) the length of a text as measured by the number of words in it; (Computing) the number of bits or (formerly) digits in a word (sense A. 13d), now typically 16, 32, or 64, but formerly fewer. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > data > [noun] > unit of > as word word length1887 word1946 machine word1954 1887 Science 11 Mar. 243/2 A friend has furnished me with the result of the count of the first five thousand five hundred words of Caesar's ‘Commentaries’. The mean word-length is 6.065. 1938 I. Goldberg Wonder of Words xvii. 354 We instinctively ask for variation in sentence-length; we instinctively ask, indeed, for variation in word-length, for variation in accent and pitch. 1949 Math. Tables & Other Aids Computation 3 428 The word length of both numbers and orders in this machine is 44 binary characters. 1987 B. Leatham-Jones Elements Industr. Robotics iv. 94 The ASCII code... A 7-bit word length is thus used which can accommodate many more characters. 1995 Guardian 14 July (Friday Review section) 2/1 The interview also seemed to have been a short one: description and analysis by the interviewer accounted for rather more of the total wordlength. 2000 F. H. Sumner in R. Rojas & U. Hashagen First Computers iv. 388 There was a parity bit with each half-word giving a total word length of 50 bits. < as lemmas |
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