English

Noun

dword ‎(plural dwords)

1. (computing) A numerical value of twice the magnitude of a word, thus typically 32 bits.
   • 1991, William B Giles, Assembly language programming for the Intel 80XXX family

     Using a double loop, each dword of the first factor is multiplied by each dword of the second factor...

   • 1999, Don Anderson, Tom Shanley, PCI system architecture

     A bridge may combine posted memory writes to successive dwords into a single burst memory write transaction using linear addressing.

   • 2003, Randall Hyde, The Art of Assembly Language

     The subtraction of each dword is independent of the other; there is no borrow from dword to dword.