Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ebcdic

/ˈɛbsəˌdɪk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.65 in modern English

Syllables: ebcdic
IPA: /ˈɛbsəˌdɪk/

13

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Acronym of Extended Binary-Coded-Decimal Interchange Code, an 8-bit character set and encoding representing 256 alphanumeric and special characters, devised by and used primarily by IBM.

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."

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈɛbsəˌdɪk/

Phrases

UTF-EBCDIC

Frequently Paired Words

BCD ASCII Unicode

Questions

How do you pronounce ebcdic?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɛbsəˌdɪk/.
What does ebcdic mean?: Acronym of Extended Binary-Coded-Decimal Interchange Code, an 8-bit character set and encoding representing 256 alphanumeric and special characters, devised by and used primarily by IBM.

How to pronounce ebcdic

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