american standard code for information interchange

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 (synset 106368162)
    referred to in: computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures
    is a type of: code, computer code - (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions
    has: ascii character - any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers
    same as: ascii

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