qword

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qword (plural qwords)

  1. (computing) A quadword.
    • 1991, William B. Giles, Assembly language programming for the Intel 80XXX family:
      On line 7, "X" and "Y" are defined to be qwords. Therefore, each is eight bytes long — the size of a double in C.
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