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quadword

A quadword is a unit of memory consisting of four adjacent words.

Historical note

In Digital’s Alpha architecture, a quadword of 64 bits was actually the natural word size, but the term word was still used for the 16-bit unit, for compatibility with the PDP-11.

See also

doubleword.