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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A numerical value of four times the magnitude of a word, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus 64 bits.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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Synonyms: qword
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kwetwóresder. Proto-Indo-European *kwetwr̥- Proto-Italic *kwetru- Latin quadri-bor. English quadri-clip. English quad- English word English quadword From quad- + word.
