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=== Half word, Single word, Double word, Quad word ===
The terms half word (or halfword or half-word), single word, double word, and quad word are often used in contemporary computing to refer to common word sizes relative to a 32-bit computingbase word size:
* half word = 16 bits
* single word = 32 bits
This terminology can be seen, for example, in the lane naming conventions for AArch64 SIMD (where <code>v0.8h</code> refers to the 128-bit vector register 0 divided in eight half word lanes) and x86_86 instruction suffixes (MOVQ to move a quad word).
The 32-bit base size is reflective of the 32-bit standard integer size used in the predominant LP64 (and less common ILP32) programming models.
