ASCII

See also: ascii

English

Alternative forms

ascii

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈæski/
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Rhymes: -æski

Proper noun

ASCII

(computing) Acronym of American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
Synonym: US-ASCII
- 1989, D. Russell, The Principles of Computer Networking, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 218:
  Thus, to translate an EBCDIC message into an ASCII one we need a table with 256 one-byte entries. In each position we put the ASCII code that corresponds to that EBCDIC entry.
- 2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 127:
  In 1960 American Standard Code for Information Exchange (ASCII) was developed from telegraphic codes.

Derived terms

Translations

Translations

Esperanto: Askio
French: ASCII (fr) m
Japanese: ASCII (ASCII), アスキー (asukī)
Portuguese: ASCII (pt) m

See also

Further reading

The official ISO standards document, standard 006.

Anagrams

Isiac

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ASCII.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈas.ki/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈaʃ.ki/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈaʃ.ki/

Proper noun

ASCII m

(computing) ASCII (a 7-bit character encoding)

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