English noun: American Standard Code for Information Interchange | |||
1. | American Standard Code for Information Interchange (communication) (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 | ||
Synonyms | ASCII | ||
Broader (hypernym) | code, computer code | ||
Part holonym | ASCII character | ||
Domain category | computer science, computing | ||