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ASCII n. (Computers)

The American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a code consisting of a set of 128 7-bit combinations used in digital computers internally, for display purposes, and for exchanging data between computers. It is very widely used, but because of the limited number of characters encoded must be supplemented or replaced by other codes for encoding special symbols or words in languages other than English. Also used attributively; as, an ASCII file.

Synonyms: American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"ASCII" Quotes from Famous Books

... coordinate covalent bond. subscripted . superscripted . {} mark non-ascii characters. "Emphasis" italics have a * mark. @@@ marks a reference to internal page numbers. Comments and guessed at characters in {braces} need stripped/fixed. Footnotes have not been re-numbered, however, () are moved to EOParagraph. ...

— Bygone Beliefs • H. Stanley Redgrove

... This edition contains only ASCII text (ISO-8859-1). The oe ligature is rendered simply as oe. Two Greek phrases in the Notes are shown ...

— Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. • Samuel Warren

... book presented the names of newspapers and ships in italics, but italics are not available in plain ASCII ...

— The Guns of Bull Run - A Story of the Civil War's Eve • Joseph A. Altsheler

... ASCII, cannot display accented characters, a few of which were used in this book. The following details how these characters ...

— Stories of New Jersey • Frank Richard Stockton

... Non-ASCII characters are represented as follows: [)a] a with breve [)e] e with breve [)u] u with breve [a] a with macron [e] e with macron [i] i with macron [o] o with macron [u] u with macron [oe] oe ligature ...

— The Romance of Words (4th ed.) • Ernest Weekley

Words linked to "ASCII" : computing, ASCII character, ASCII control character, computer code, computer science, ASCII text file