EBCDIC

Crosswords: EBCDIC

Specialty definitions using "EBCDIC": Binary Synchronous Transmission ♦ EBCDIC ♦ fear and loathing ♦ mimencode ♦ octal forty ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ uuencode. (references)

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Specialty Definition: EBCDIC

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

EBCDIC (Fully, "Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code") is a character encoding used on IBM mainframes and AS/400s. It is descended from punched cards. Outside of such IBM systems, ASCII (and its descendants such as Unicode) are normally used instead; EBCDIC is generally considered an anachronism.

EBCDIC takes up eight bits, which are divided in two pieces. The first four bits are called the "zone" and represent the category of the character, whereas the last four bits are the called the "digit" and identify the specific character. There are a number of different versions of EBCDIC, customised for different countries.

External link

http://www.diffuse.org/chars.html#EBCDIC

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "EBCDIC."

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Specialty Definition: EBCDIC

Domain	Definition
Computing	EBCDIC /eb's-dik/, /eb'see`dik/, or /eb'k-dik/ n. [abbreviation, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code] An alleged character set used on IBM dinosaurs. It exists in at least six mutually incompatible versions, all featuring such delights as non-contiguous letter sequences and the absence of several ASCII punctuation characters fairly important for modern computer languages (exactly which characters are absent varies according to which version of EBCDIC you're looking at). IBM adapted EBCDIC from {punched card code in the early 1960s and promulgated it as a customer-control tactic (see connector conspiracy), spurning the already established ASCII standard. Today, IBM claims to be an open-systems company, but IBM's own description of the EBCDIC variants and how to convert between them is still internally classified top-secret, burn-before-reading. Hackers blanch at the very _name_ of EBCDIC and consider it a manifestation of purest evil. See also fear and loathing. Source: Jargon File.
Census	(Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code) A character set designed originally for use with IBM computers. (references)
Geological	An 8-bit character encoding scheme used primarily on IBM machines. (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code). (references)
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Abbreviations & Acronyms: EBCDIC

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
EBCDIC	English	Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code	Computing, Electrical Engineering
EBCDIC	Finnish	EBCDIC-merkkikoodijärjestelmä	Computing, Electrical Engineering
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Usage Frequency: EBCDIC

"EBCDIC" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "EBCDIC" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	66.67%	2	245,945
Adjective (general or positive)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: EBCDIC

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
ebcdic	62
ebcdic ascii	23
convert ebcdic to ascii	7
ascii ebcdic conversion	6
codigo ebcdic	6
ebcdic table	5
ebcdic editor	5
ebcdic code	4
convert ebcdic	3
character ebcdic set	3
ebcdic chart	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: EBCDIC

Language		Translations for "EBCDIC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		extended binary coded decimal interchange code (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code), EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code). (various references)

Dutch		Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code), EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code). (various references)

Finnish		EBCDIC-merkkikoodijärjestelmä (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code), EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code). (various references)

French		EBCDIC. (various references)

German		Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC code, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code), EBCDIC (EBCDIC code, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code). (various references)

Greek		EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code). (various references)

Italian		EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code). (various references)

Pig Latin		ebcdicay

Portuguese		EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code). (various references)

Spanish		EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code), código extendido de intercambio decimal codificado en binario (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code). (various references)

Swedish		Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code), EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: EBCDIC

Misspellings
	"EBCDIC" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Abcda, Esbcd. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: EBCDIC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-c-d-e-i"
	-1 letter: cebid.
	-2 letters: bice, bide, cedi, dice, iced.
	-3 letters: bed, bid, deb, dib, die, ice.
	-4 letters: be, bi, de, ed, id.
	Words containing the letters "b-c-c-d-e-i"
	+2 letters: bicycled.
	+4 letters: brecciated, cockbilled, conscribed.
	+5 letters: bactericide, cinderblock, conductible, pickabacked.
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