Get to know Longword better with 3 real example sentences, the meaning.
Longword meaning
A type of unsigned integer variable that is longer than a word (with the specific number of bits depending upon the system architecture).
Using Longword
- The main meaning on this page is: A type of unsigned integer variable that is longer than a word (with the specific number of bits depending upon the system architecture).
Context around Longword
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Longword
- In this selection, "longword" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, aligning, aligned and respectively stand out and add context to how "longword" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include computed by longword aligning and and contains a longword aligned virtual. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "longword" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with longword
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The sizes of Delphi's Integer and Cardinal are not guaranteed, varying from platform to platform; usually defined as LongInt and LongWord respectively. (23 words)
The new address is computed by longword aligning and sign extending the 21-bit displacement and adding it to the address of the instruction following the conditional branch. (28 words)
The program counter is a 64-bit register which contains a longword-aligned virtual byte address, that is, the low two bits of the program counter are always zero. (29 words)
The program counter is a 64-bit register which contains a longword-aligned virtual byte address, that is, the low two bits of the program counter are always zero. (29 words)
The new address is computed by longword aligning and sign extending the 21-bit displacement and adding it to the address of the instruction following the conditional branch. (28 words)
The sizes of Delphi's Integer and Cardinal are not guaranteed, varying from platform to platform; usually defined as LongInt and LongWord respectively. (23 words)
Example sentences (3)
The new address is computed by longword aligning and sign extending the 21-bit displacement and adding it to the address of the instruction following the conditional branch.
The program counter is a 64-bit register which contains a longword-aligned virtual byte address, that is, the low two bits of the program counter are always zero.
The sizes of Delphi's Integer and Cardinal are not guaranteed, varying from platform to platform; usually defined as LongInt and LongWord respectively.