Word
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Hardware Word
A word is the group of bits normally managed by a processor. This is typically a power-of-two multiple of eight bits (8,16,32, or 64 bits), although some rare or early processors used different word sizes.
The word size is usually associated with the register size and the amount of data read/written from/to memory at one time.