different between bitness vs addressability

English

Etymology

bit +? -ness

Pronunciation

Noun

bitness (usually uncountable, plural bitnesses)

1. (computing) The architecture of a computer system or program in terms of how many bits (binary digits) compose the basic values it can deal with.
   • 1995, InfoWorld (volume 17, number 30, August 1995)

     Execute an API or DLL call of the wrong bitness from within any of these programs and the result is an unrecoverable run-time error.

   • 1998, Chris Sells, Windows telephony programming: a developer's guide to TAPI

     Table 7.1 summarizes the bitness requirements for TSPs under the various versions of TAPI and Windows.

Translations

Anagrams

• Nesbits

English

Etymology

address +? -ability

Noun

addressability (plural addressabilities)

1. (computing) The capability of a microprocessor etc. to deal with values of a certain size using a single instruction.

   64-bit addressability means that a single machine instruction can operate on a value stored in eight bytes.

2. (computer graphics) the capability of a display surface or storage device to accommodate a specified number of uniquely identifiable points.
3. (micrographics) the capability of a specified field frame to contain a specific number of uniquely identifiable points.

Synonyms

• (capability to deal with values of certain size): bitness

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