ASCII
pronunciation
How to pronounce ASCII in British English:
UK [ˈæski]
How to pronounce ASCII in American English:
US ['æskɪ]
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- Noun:
- (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
Word Origin
- ASCII
- 1963, initialism (acronym) from "American Standard Code for Information Interchange."
Example
- 1. This filter will import straight ascii text from any file .
- 2. One of the earliest and simplest is called ascii text .
- 3. The well-known notepad.exe program is an editor for plain ascii text files .
- 4. Use all the symbols on a standard ascii keyboard and you have 95 to choose from .
- 5. Enables you to save a file to rtf or ascii text .