BIT FIELD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bit field mean? 

• BIT FIELD (noun)
  The noun BIT FIELD has 1 sense:

1. a field containing only binary characters

  Familiarity information: BIT FIELD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIT FIELD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A field containing only binary characters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("bit field" is a kind of...):

field ((computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)