American Standard Code for Information Interchange

Definitions of American Standard Code for Information Interchange
  1. noun
    (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
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    type of:
    code, computer code
    (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions
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