American Standard Code For Information Interchange (Noun)
Meaning
(computer science) a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies; a string of 7 binary digits represents each character; used in most microcomputers.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The programmer had to convert the text file from the American Standard Code for Information Interchange to Unicode before it could be read by the new software.
- The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is still widely used today, despite the development of more advanced character encoding systems.
- The computer's keyboard was set to use the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, which allowed it to communicate with other devices.
- The company's old mainframe computer used the American Standard Code for Information Interchange to store and transmit data, but the new system used a different encoding scheme.
- The programmer used a lookup table to convert the binary data from the American Standard Code for Information Interchange to a human-readable format.