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ASCII

noun

  1. American character encoding standard
L315900 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

name

  1. Alternative letter-case form of ASCII.

    The input text arrives as a sequence of ascii characters, which can be of any length.

noun

Etymology: From Latin asciī, plural of ascius, from Ancient Greek ἄσκῐος (áskĭos, “shadowless”).

  1. ascians