ASCII

standard 7-bit code used to numerically represent characters during the transfer of text data (Computers)

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American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), generally pronounced ask-ee ([1]), is a character encoding based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text. Most modern character encodings — which support many more characters than did the original — have a historical basis in ASCII.
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Noun
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
(synonym) American Standard Code for Information Interchange
(hypernym) code, computer code
(part-meronym) ASCII character
(classification) computer science, computing

ASCII, American Standard Code for Information Interchange; (Computers) standard character array for letters and symbols

ASCII, American Standard Code for Information Interchange, standard 7-bit code used to numerically represent characters during the transfer of text data (Computers)