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BIT FIELD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A field containing only binary characters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("bit field" is a kind of...):
field ((computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)