ASCII

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ASCII mean? 

• ASCII (noun)
  The noun ASCII has 1 sense:

1. (computer science) a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies; a string of 7 binary digits represents each character; used in most microcomputers

  Familiarity information: ASCII used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASCII (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(computer science) a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies; a string of 7 binary digits represents each character; used in most microcomputers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

American Standard Code for Information Interchange; ASCII

Hypernyms ("ASCII" is a kind of...):

code; computer code ((computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions)

Meronyms (parts of "ASCII"):

ASCII character (any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

 Context examples 

A file format using 64 ASCII characters to encode the six bit binary data values 0-63.

(Base 64, NCI Thesaurus)

There are 128 standard ASCII codes, each of which can be represented by a 7 digit binary number: 0000000 through 1111111.

(ASCII, NCI Thesaurus)

The ASCII code for capital "A" is 65 and for lower case "a" is 97; or in binary 01000001 and 01100001, respectively.

(A, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)