How do you pronounce ascii?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈæski/.

ascii

/ˈæski/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 2.92 in modern English

Syllables: ascii
IPA: /ˈæski/

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Meaning

name

Acronym of American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

noun

ascians

Obsolete

name

Alternative letter-case form of ASCII.

Example Sentences

"Thus, to translate an EBCDIC message into an ASCII one we need a table with 256 one-byte entries. In each position we put the ASCII code that corresponds to that EBCDIC entry."
"In 1960 American Standard Code for Information Exchange (ASCII) was developed from telegraphic codes."
"The input text arrives as a sequence of ascii characters, which can be of any length."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: asciī, ἄσκῐος

Usage

Obsolete

Derived Forms

ArmSCII ASCIIbetical ASCIIfication ASCIIfy ATASCII PETSCII

Phrases

ASCII armor ASCII art extended ASCII pure ASCII text US-ASCII 7-bit UTF-7 UTF-8

Frequently Paired Words

extended ASCII 7-bit EBCDIC Unicode UTF-7 UTF-8 UTF-16

Synonyms

US-ASCII american standard code for information interchange

Rhymes With

lasky caskey laskey mccaskey mcclaskey