factious

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I guess this is kind of a factious question to ask, but why 32 bit and not 64 bit?Are there any technical reasons for this?

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dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)

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adjective

dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for factious.

adjective

dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)

Example sentences

I guess this is kind of a factious question to ask, but why 32 bit and not 64 bit?Are there any technical reasons for this?

I'll admit I was being slightly factious and open data is making everything much easier these days.

It's hard to negotiate when there are 100 factious parties involved instead of just the President.

Not to sound too factious but the decision to redesign the string API was a big reason why Python 3 has been a little on the slow cooked side.

Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and then betray the interests, of the people.

It's because their organizational structure is almost entirely based on a politics of schisms and infighting, and this tendency is constantly encouraged—and activist communities are constantly attacked—to maximize the number of schisms and factious sub-movements which defect from any unified front.