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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=computing">computing</a>, a <b>word</b> is a fixed-sized <a href="page.php?w=Data_%28computer_science%29">datum</a> handled as the natural or historical unit of data by the <a href="page.php?w=instruction_set">instruction set</a> or the hardware of a <a href="page.php?w=Central_processing_unit">processor</a>. The number of <a href="page.php?w=bit">bit</a>s or digits in a word (the word size, word width, or word length) is an important characteristic of any specific processor design or <a href="page.php?w=computer_architecture">computer architecture</a>.</p><p>
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