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Dword

Updated: 04/26/2017 by Computer Hope

A dword, which is short for "double word," is a data type definition that is specific to Microsoft Windows. When defined in the file windows.h, a dword is an unsigned, 32-bit unit of data. It can contain an integer value in the range 0 through 4,294,967,295.

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