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ASCII

Definition: ASCII

ASCII

Noun

1. (computer science) American Standard Code for Information Interchange; a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies; a string of 7 binary digits represents each character; used in most microcomputers.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: ASCII

DomainDefinition

Computing

ASCII /as'kee/ n. [originally an acronym (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) but now merely conventional] The predominant character set encoding of present-day computers. The standard version uses 7 bits for each character, whereas most earlier codes (including early drafts of ASCII prior to June 1961) used fewer. This change allowed the inclusion of lowercase letters -- a major win -- but it did not provide for accented letters or any other letterforms not used in English (such as the German sharp-S or the ae-ligature which is a letter in, for example, Norwegian). It could be worse, though. It could be much worse. See {EBCDIC to understand how. A history of ASCII and its ancestors is at `http://www.wps.com/texts/codes/index.html'. Computers are much pickier and less flexible about spelling than humans; thus, hackers need to be very precise when talking about characters, and have developed a considerable amount of verbal shorthand for them. Every character has one or more names -- some formal, some concise, some silly. Common jargon names for ASCII characters are collected here. See also individual entries for bang, excl, open, ques, semi, shriek, splat, twiddle, and Yu-Shiang Whole Fish. This list derives from revision 2.3 of the Usenet ASCII pronunciation guide. Single characters are listed in ASCII order; character pairs are sorted in by first member. For each character, common names are given in rough order of popularity, followed by names that are reported but rarely seen; official ANSI/CCITT names are surrounded by brokets: <>. Square brackets mark the particularly silly names introduced by INTERCAL. The abbreviations "l/r" and "o/c" stand for left/right and "open/close" respectively. Ordinary parentheticals provide some usage information. ! Common: bang; pling; excl; not; shriek; ball-bat; . Rare: factorial; exclam; smash; cuss; boing; yell; wow; hey; wham; eureka; [spark-spot]; soldier, control. " Common: double quote; quote. Rare: literal mark; double-glitch; ; ; dirk; [rabbit-ears]; double prime. # Common: number sign; pound; pound sign; hash; sharp; crunch; hex; [mesh]. Rare: grid; crosshatch; octothorpe; flash; , pig-pen; tictactoe; scratchmark; thud; thump; splat. $ Common: dollar; . Rare: currency symbol; buck; cash; string (from BASIC); escape (when used as the echo of ASCII ESC); ding; cache; [big money]. % Common: percent; ; mod; grapes. Rare: [double-oh-seven]. & Common: ; amp; amper; and, and sign. Rare: address (from C); reference (from C++); andpersand; bitand; background (from `sh(1)'); pretzel. [INTERCAL called this `ampersand'; what could be sillier?] ' Common: single quote; quote; . Rare: prime; glitch; tick; irk; pop; [spark]; ; . ( ) Common: l/r paren; l/r parenthesis; left/right; open/close; paren/thesis; o/c paren; o/c parenthesis; l/r parenthesis; l/r banana. Rare: so/already; lparen/rparen; ; o/c round bracket, l/r round bracket, [wax/wane]; parenthisey/unparenthisey; l/r ear. * Common: star; [splat]; . Rare: wildcard; gear; dingle; mult; spider; aster; times; twinkle; glob (see glob); Nathan Hale. + Common: ; add. Rare: cross; [intersection]. , Common: . Rare: ; [tail]. - Common: dash; ; . Rare: [worm]; option; dak; bithorpe. . Common: dot; point; ; . Rare: radix point; full stop; [spot]. / Common: slash; stroke; ; forward slash. Rare: diagonal; solidus; over; slak; virgule; [slat]. : Common: . Rare: dots; [two-spot]. ; Common: ; semi. Rare: weenie; [hybrid], pit-thwong. < > Common: ; bra/ket; l/r angle; l/r angle bracket; l/r broket. Rare: from/into, towards; read from/write to; suck/blow; comes-from/gozinta; in/out; crunch/zap (all from UNIX); tic/tac; [angle/right angle]. = Common: ; gets; takes. Rare: quadrathorpe; [half-mesh]. ? Common: query; ; ques. Rare: quiz; whatmark; [what]; wildchar; huh; hook; buttonhook; hunchback. @ Common: at sign; at; strudel. Rare: each; vortex; whorl; [whirlpool]; cyclone; snail; ape; cat; rose; cabbage; . V Rare: [book]. [ ] Common: l/r square bracket; l/r bracket; ; bracket/unbracket. Rare: square/unsquare; [U turn/U turn back]. \ Common: backslash, hack, whack; escape (from C/UNIX); reverse slash; slosh; backslant; backwhack. Rare: bash; ; reversed virgule; [backslat]. ^ Common: hat; control; uparrow; caret; . Rare: xor sign, chevron; [shark (or shark-fin)]; to the (`to the power of'); fang; pointer (in Pascal). _ Common: ; underscore; underbar; under. Rare: score; backarrow; skid; [flatworm]. ` Common: backquote; left quote; left single quote; open quote; ; grave. Rare: backprime; [backspark]; unapostrophe; birk; blugle; back tick; back glitch; push; ; quasiquote. Common: o/c brace; l/r brace; l/r squiggly; l/r squiggly bracket/brace; l/r curly bracket/brace; . Rare: brace/unbrace; curly/uncurly; leftit/rytit; l/r squirrelly; [embrace/bracelet]. A balanced pair of these may be called `curlies'. | Common: bar; or; or-bar; v-bar; pipe; vertical bar. Rare: ; gozinta; thru; pipesinta (last three from UNIX); [spike]. ~ Common: ; squiggle; twiddle; not. Rare: approx; wiggle; swung dash; enyay; [sqiggle (sic)]. The pronunciation of `#' as `pound' is common in the U.S. but a bad idea; {Commonwealth Hackish has its own, rather more apposite use of `pound sign' (confusingly, on British keyboards the pound graphic happens to replace `#'; thus Britishers sometimes call `#' on a U.S.-ASCII keyboard `pound', compounding the American error). The U.S. usage derives from an old-fashioned commercial practice of using a `#' suffix to tag pound weights on bills of lading. The character is usually pronounced `hash' outside the U.S. There are more culture wars over the correct pronunciation of this character than any other, which has led to the ha ha only serious suggestion that it be pronounced `shibboleth' (see Judges 12:6 in an Old Testament or Tanakh). The `uparrow' name for circumflex and `leftarrow' name for underline are historical relics from archaic ASCII (the 1963 version), which had these graphics in those character positions rather than the modern punctuation characters. The `swung dash' or `approximation' sign is not quite the same as tilde in typeset material but the ASCII tilde serves for both (compare angle brackets). Some other common usages cause odd overlaps. The `#', `$', `>', and `&' characters, for example, are all pronounced "hex" in different communities because various assemblers use them as a prefix tag for hexadecimal constants (in particular, `#' in many assembler-programming cultures, `$' in the 6502 world, `>' at Texas Instruments, and `&' on the BBC Micro, Sinclair, and some Z80 machines). See also splat. The inability of ASCII text to correctly represent any of the world's other major languages makes the designers' choice of 7 bits look more and more like a serious misfeature as the use of international networks continues to increase (see software rot). Hardware and software from the U.S. still tends to embody the assumption that ASCII is the universal character set and that characters have 7 bits; this is a major irritant to people who want to use a character set suited to their own languages. Perversely, though, efforts to solve this problem by proliferating `national' character sets produce an evolutionary pressure to use a _smaller_ subset common to all those in use. Source: Jargon File.

Census

American Standard Code for Information Interchange. The most common format for text files in computers and on the Internet. Computers "read" ASCII codes, each of which can be represented by a 7-digit binary number from 0000000 through 111111, and produce them as letters, numbers or symbols; 128 possible characters are defined. ASCII was developed by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). (references)
 (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) A code used in computers and communications systems in which each character, number, or special character is defined in eight bits. (references)

Geological

A seven-bit code standard adopted to facilitate data interchange between computers and operating systems. These codes represent alphanumerics and special characters (for example, $, /, ?, !). (American Standard Code for Information Interchange). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: ASCII

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange, generally pronounced ass-key) is a character set and a character encoding based on the Roman alphabet as used in modern English. It is most commonly used by computers and other communication equipment to represent text and by control devices that work with text.

Overview

Like other codes, ASCII specifies a correspondence between integers that can be represented digitally and the symbols of a written language, thus allowing digital devices to communicate with each other and to process and store character-oriented information. The ASCII character encoding or a compatible extension (see below) is used on nearly all common computers, especially personal computers and workstations. The preferred MIME name for this encoding is "US-ASCII".

ASCII is a seven-bit code, meaning that it uses the integers representable with seven binary digits (a range of 0 to 127 decimal) to represent information. Even at the time that ASCII was introduced, most computers dealt with eight-bit bytes as the smallest unit of information; the eighth bit was commonly used for error checking on communication lines or other device-specific functions.

ASCII does not specify any way to represent information about the structure or appearance of a piece of text. That requires other standards, such as those specifying markup languages.

ASCII was first published as a standard in 1963 by the American Standards Association (ASA), which later became ANSI. There are many variations of ASCII, but its present, most widely-used form is ANSI X3.4-1967, also standardized as ECMA-6, ISO/IEC 646:1991 International Reference Version, and ITU-T Recommendation T.50 (09/92). It is embedded in page zero of its probable replacement, Unicode. ASCII is considered by some the most successful software standard ever promulgated.

Historically, ASCII developed from telegraphic codes. It started as a commercial 7-bit teleprinter code promoted by Bell data services. ASA reordered the code for sorting (alphabetization) of lists, and added features for devices other than teleprinters. Bell's code added punctuation and lower-case letter to the earlier 5-bit Baudot teleprinter code. Baudot automated sending and receiving of telegraphic messages and took many features from Morse code.

ASCII Control Characters

The first thirty-two codes (numbers 0-31 decimal) in ASCII are reserved for control characters: codes that may not themselves represent information, but that are used to control devices (such as printers) that make use of ASCII. For example, character 10 represents the "line feed" function (which causes a printer to advance its paper), and character 27 represents the "escape" key found on the top left of common keyboards.

Code 127 (all seven bits on) is another special character known as "delete" or "rubout". Though its function is similar to that of other control characters, it was placed at this position so that it could be used to erase a section of paper tape, a popular storage medium at one time, by punching out all its holes. Code 0 (all bits off) is ignored by many computer systems.

Many of the codes are to mark data packets, and control a data transmission protocol (i.e. enquiry (any stations out there?), acknowledge, negative acknowledge, start of header, start of text, end of text). Escape and substitute permit a protocol to mark binary data so that if it contains codes with the same values as protocol characters, the codes will be processed as data.

The separator characters (record separator, etc.) were designed for use with magnetic tape systems.

XON and XOFF are often sent from a slow device, such as a printer, to start and stop a flow of data so no data is lost.

BinaryDecimalHexAbbreviationPrintable
Representation		Name/Meaning
0000 0000000NUL␀Null character
0000 0001101SOH␁Start of Header
0000 0010202STX␂Start of Text
0000 0011303ETX␃End of Text
0000 0100404EOT␄End of Transmission
0000 0101505ENQ␅Enquiry
0000 0110606ACK␆Acknowledgment
0000 0111707BEL␇Bell
0000 1000808BS␈Backspace
0000 1001909HT␉Horizontal Tab
0000 1010100ALF␊Line feed
0000 1011110BVT␋Vertical Tab
0000 1100120CFF␌Form Feed
0000 1101130DCR␍Carriage return
0000 1110140ESO␎Shift Out
0000 1111150FSI␏Shift In
0001 00001610DLE␐Data Link Escape
0001 00011711DC1␑XON Device Control 1
0001 00101812DC2␒Device Control 2
0001 00111913DC3␓XOFF Device Control 3
0001 01002014DC4␔Device Control 4
0001 01012115NAK␕Negative Acknowledgement
0001 01102216SYN␖Synchronous Idle
0001 01112317ETB␗End of Trans. Block
0001 10002418CAN␘Cancel
0001 10012519EM␙End of Medium
0001 1010261ASUB␚Substitute
0001 1011271BESC␛Escape
0001 1100281CFS␜File Separator
0001 1101291DGS␝Group Separator
0001 1110301ERS␞Record Separator
0001 1111311FUS␟Unit Separator
0111 11111277FDEL␡Delete

In the table above, the fifth column contains graphic characters that are reserved for representing the position of control codes in a data stream; your HTML user agent may require the installation of additional fonts in order to display them.

See new line.

ASCII Printable Characters

Code 32 is the "space" character, denoting the space between words, which is produced by the large space bar of a keyboard. Codes 33 to 126 are called the printable characters, which represent letters, digits, punctuation marks, and a few miscellaneous symbols.

ASCII provides some internationalization for French and Spanish (both spoken in the U.S.) by providing a backspace with the grave, accent (miscalled a "single quote"), tilde, and breath mark (inverted vel).

BinaryDecimalHexGraphic
0010 00003220(blank) (␠)
0010 00013321Exclamation mark
0010 00103422"
0010 00113523#
0010 01003624$
0010 01013725%
0010 01103826&
0010 01113927'
0010 10004028(
0010 10014129)
0010 1010422A*
0010 1011432B+
0010 1100442CComma
0010 1101452D-
0010 1110462EFull stop
0010 1111472F/
0011 000048300
0011 000149311
0011 001050322
0011 001151333
0011 010052344
0011 010153355
0011 011054366
0011 011155377
0011 100056388
0011 100157399
0011 1010583AColon
0011 1011593BSemicolon
0011 1100603C<
0011 1101613D=
0011 1110623E>
0011 1111633FQuestion mark
 
BinaryDecimalHexGraphic
0100 00006440@
0100 00016541A
0100 00106642B
0100 00116743C
0100 01006844D
0100 01016945E
0100 01107046F
0100 01117147G
0100 10007248H
0100 10017349I
0100 1010744AJ
0100 1011754BK
0100 1100764CL
0100 1101774DM
0100 1110784EN
0100 1111794FO
0101 00008050P
0101 00018151Q
0101 00108252R
0101 00118353S
0101 01008454T
0101 01018555U
0101 01108656V
0101 01118757W
0101 10008858X
0101 10018959Y
0101 1010905AZ
0101 1011915B[
0101 1100925C\\
0101 1101935D]
0101 1110945E^
0101 1111955F_
 
BinaryDecimalHexGraphic
0110 00009660`
0110 00019761a
0110 00109862b
0110 00119963c
0110 010010064d
0110 010110165e
0110 011010266f
0110 011110367g
0110 100010468h
0110 100110569i
0110 10101066Aj
0110 10111076Bk
0110 11001086Cl
0110 11011096Dm
0110 11101106En
0110 11111116Fo
0111 000011270p
0111 000111371q
0111 001011472r
0111 001111573s
0111 010011674t
0111 010111775u
0111 011011876v
0111 011111977w
0111 100012078x
0111 100112179y
0111 10101227Az
0111 10111237B{
0111 11001247C|
0111 11011257D}
0111 11101267E~

Note how uppercase characters can be converted to lowercase by adding 32 to their ASCII value; in binary, this can be accomplished simply by setting the sixth-least significant bit to 1.

Variants Of ASCII

The international spread of computer technology led to many variations and extensions to the ASCII character set, since ASCII does not include accented letters and other symbols necessary to write most languages besides English that use Roman-based alphabets. International standard ISO 646 (1972) was the first attempt to remedy this problem, although it regrettably created compatibility problems as well. ISO 646 was still a seven-bit character set, and since no additional codes were available, some were re-assigned in language-specific variants. See ISO 646 for details.

Improved technology brought out-of-band means to represent the information formerly encoded in the eighth bit of each byte, freeing this bit to add another 128 additional character codes for new assignments. Eight-bit standards such as ISO 8859 enabled a broader range of languages to be represented, but were still plagued with incompatibilities and limitations. Still, ISO 8859-1 and original 7-bit ASCII are the most common character encodings in use today. Unicode, with a much larger character repertoire, is quickly supplanting ISO 8859 and ASCII in many places, but it only maps code points to characters, and does not necessarily require that each code point be represented by a single 7-bit or 8-bit byte, as ASCII or ISO 8859 do. To the extent that it maps characters to code points, though, Unicode is backward compatible: the first 127 code points of Unicode are the same as in ASCII, and the first 256 code points of Unicode are the same as in ISO 8859-1.

The portmanteau word ASCIIbetical has evolved to describe the collation of data in ASCII code order rather than genuine alphabetical order (which requires some tricky computation, and varies with language).

ASCII contains many characters which were not commonly used, or at least spoken of, outside of the computing context; the "popularization" of these characters required that names be agreed upon for them. Some of these names are more whimsical than others. (See especially the end of the list.)

ASCIIZ or ASCIZ is an adjective used to refer to a null-terminated ASCII string.

See also

External link

 ASCII is also a name of one of the oldest and most prestigious computer magazines published in Japan. See ASCII (magazine)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "ASCII."

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: ASCII

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

ASCII

EnglishAmerican Standard Code for Information InterchangeComputing

ASCII

SpanishCódigo ASCIIComputing, Electrical Engineering

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Crosswords: ASCII

English words defined with "ASCII": Ascian, ASCII character set, ASCII control character, ASCII text file ♦ control character ♦ document ♦ source code ♦ text file. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ASCII": ACK, amper, ANSI, ARC EXPORT, ASCII graphics, ASCII keyboard, ASCIIbetical order, ASCIIbonics, atob ♦ base 64, Binary Synchronous Transmission, boxology, BUAG ♦ character graphics, commercial at, control-C, control-O, control-Q, control-S, copy and paste, CRLF ♦ Device Control, Device Control 2, Device Control 4, DLG OPTIONAL FORMAT, DLG STANDARD FORMAT ♦ EBCDIC, eight-bit clean, End of Medium, End Of Transmission, End Transmission Block, ENQ, EOF, escape sequence, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code ♦ File Separator, flat ASCII, flat-ASCII, form feed, frogging, function key ♦ Group Separator ♦ horizontal tabulation ♦ IMDISP, International Phonetic Alphabet, ISO 8859 ♦ left arrow, line starve ♦ MIM, mimencode, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions ♦ NAK, negative acknowledge, Network News Transfer Protocol, newline ♦ octal forty ♦ PETSCII, plain ASCII, Portable Pixmap ♦ ques ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, Record Separator, Rich Text Format, RTF format ♦ sgmls, Shift In, Shift Out, SIRTS, speaker independent recognition, speaker independent voice recognition, Start Of Header, Start Of Text, Synchronous idle ♦ TDF, Telecommunications Device for the Deaf, The DLG Standard Format is no longer distributed., Troll-O-Meter ♦ UCS transformation format, Unicode, Unit Separator, US-ASCII, UTF-8, uudecode, uuencode ♦ Vertical Redundancy Check ♦ Yu-Shiang Whole Fish. (references)
Non-English Usage: "ASCII" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

German (ascii), Portuguese (American Standard Code for Information Interchange, ASCII).

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Commercial Usage: ASCII

DomainTitle

References

  • Ascii Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • 1997 ICD-9 ASCII File: International Classification of Diseases in ASCII File Format (reference)

  • ASCII CORP.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference)

  • Conversion Tables: ASCII Disk Version: IBM-Compatible disks (reference)

  • IEEE Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology: ASCII Version (With Disk) (reference)

  • ReadMe! ASCII Culture and the Revenge of Knowledge (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: ASCII

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Burma

This file is available for downloading without charge in WordPerfect 5.1 ASCII, and Adobe Acrobat readable (*.pdf) FORMATS. (references)

Burma

For Internet access, the address for use with the World Wide Web (Home Page), Telnet, or FTP protocol is: fedbbs.access.gpo.gov. The document is also accessible for downloading in ASCII format without charge from Treasury's Electronic Library ("TEL") in the "Business, Trade and Labor Mall" of the FedWorld bulletin board. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ASCII

"ASCII" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.59% of the time. "ASCII" is used about 162 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)92.59%15025,701
Adjective (general or positive)4.32%7133,076
Noun (proper)3.09%5157,705
                    Total100.00%162N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: ASCII

CountryName
Japan

Ascii Corporation

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: ASCII

Expressions using "ASCII": ascii art ♦ ascii character ♦ ascii character set ♦ ascii character table ♦ ascii code ♦ ascii control character ♦ ascii graphics ♦ ASCII keyboard ♦ ascii text file ♦ flat ASCII ♦ plain ASCII. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "ASCII": ascii-ansi, ascii-based.

Ending with "ASCII": flat-ASCII, non-ascii, plain-ASCII, US-ASCII.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ASCII

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ascii

1,335

ascii image

26

ascii art

1,033

ascii codigos

26

ascii table

481

ascii editor

26

ascii code

333

ascii symbol

25

ascii codigo

203

ascii pic

25

ascii chart

194

ascii values

25

ascii character

133

ebcdic ascii

23

ascii picture

114

art ascii small

23

ascii character set

89

ascii código

21

ascii text

46

ascii porn

20

ascii hex

45

art ascii generator

20

ascii generator

44

ascii finger middle

19

ascii converter

39

ascii graphic

18

ascii binary

36

ascii drawing

18

ascii conversion

35

ascii file

18

ascii character code

34

ascii converter hex

17

ascii code table

34

ascii msn

16

ascii tabla

33

ascii heart

16

art ascii text

29

ascii extended

16

ascii sms

28

ascii character map

15
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ASCII

Language Translations for "ASCII"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

ASCII-kode (American Standard Code for Information Interchange, USASCII), ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), Amerikaanse standaardcode voor informatie-uitwisseling (American Standard Code for Information Interchange, USASCII), American Standard Code for Information Interchange (American Standard Code for Information Interchange). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

Character set. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange, USASCII). (various references)

   

French

  

code USASCII, code ASCII. (various references)

   

German

  

ascii (American Standard Code for Information Interchange). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κώδικας USASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange, USASCII), κώδικας ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange, USASCII), Αμερικανικός ρότυπος Κώδικας για Ανταλλαγή ληροφοριών (American Standard Code for Information Interchange, USASCII). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), codice ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange, USASCII). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

アジ"説 (Ascot tie, asphalt concrete, astatine, asterisk, inflammatory speech, propaganda speech). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

アスキー . (various references)

   

Korean 

  

아스키. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

asciiay

   

Portuguese

  

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), Código-Padrão Americano de Intercâmbio de Informações (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), código ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange, USASCII). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), código ASCII (ascii code). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ASCII-kod (American Standard Code for Information Interchange, USASCII). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: ASCII

Misspellings

"ASCII" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Acsni, Acssi, Aeci, Amsiwi, Ascanio, asciis, Ascil, Ashibi, Asicom, Askoli, Asni, Azimi, Azizi, Bsshii, Gaskiya, Iscia, Isshiki, Sacii, Usci. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ASCII

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-s"

-1 letter: asci.

-2 letters: ais, cis, sac, sic.

-3 letters: ai, as, is, si.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-s"
 

+1 letter: anisic, casini, ischia, sialic, silica.

 

+2 letters: airsick, ascidia, ascitic, basilic, bibasic, camisia, chiasmi, clivias, diacids, dibasic, episcia, fiaschi, iambics, incisal, ischial, italics, laicise, laicism, miasmic, niacins, pachisi, piscina, salicin, satiric, sciatic, silicas.

 

+3 letters: abscisin, accidias, accidies, acidosis, actinias, actinism, activism, activist, acuities, allicins, aoristic, artistic, ascidian, ascidium, atticism, atticist, autistic, avionics, basicity, basilica, biphasic, caitiffs, camisias, canikins, canities, capsicin, carditis, casimire, cavities, chiasmic, chiastic, chiliads, chiliasm, chiliast, ciliates, diabasic, dicastic, dichasia, diphasic, disclaim, episcias, gracilis, hibachis, incasing, indicans, indicias, iotacism, isagogic, isatinic, ischemia, isobaric, laicised, laicises, laicisms, laicizes, mastitic, meticais, minicabs, minicams, minicars, misclaim, musician, narcissi, oxidasic, pachisis, pacifies, pacifism, pacifist, papistic, parchisi, pasticci, piracies, piscinae, piscinal, piscinas, rachitis, sadistic, salicine, salicins, salvific, sciaenid, sciatica, sciatics, scimitar, silicate, silicula, silvical, simoniac, suicidal, triacids, triadics, tribasic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ASCII


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 53 43 49 49

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    ...    -.-.    ..    ..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01010011 01000011 01001001 01001001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#83 &#67 &#73 &#73

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0053 0043 0049 0049

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3553374343

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Quotations: Non-fiction 		5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Company Usage
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet 		9. Translations: Modern
10. Abbreviations
11. Acronyms
12. Derivations 		13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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