Used in a Sentence

hexadecimal

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hexadecimal.

Editorial note

Well, reading the hexadecimal interpretation of a memory dump full of little-endian data is annoying as fuck.

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Definitions3
Parts of speech2

Quick take

Of a number, expressed in hexadecimal.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hexadecimal gathered in one view.

adjective

Of a number, expressed in hexadecimal.

noun

(countable, computing) A number expressed in the hexadecimal system.

noun

(arithmetic, computing, uncountable) A number system with base sixteen, using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E and F, most used in computing as a hexadecimal digit can represent four bits, half a standard byte, and thus a single byte can be represented conveniently with two digits.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hexadecimal.

adjective

Of a number, expressed in hexadecimal.

noun

(countable, computing) A number expressed in the hexadecimal system.

noun

(arithmetic, computing, uncountable) A number system with base sixteen, using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E and F, most used in computing as a hexadecimal digit can represent four bits, half a standard byte, and thus a single byte can be represented conveniently with two digits.

Example sentences

1

Well, reading the hexadecimal interpretation of a memory dump full of little-endian data is annoying as fuck.

2

The tiles could have hexadecimal numbers on them and could be played against a randomly generated dictionary of scored combinations.

3

Unless you're a Unicode fanatic, you probably won't manually edit sequences of hexadecimal codepoints.

4

Working with raw binary data, like having it represented as hexadecimal pairs per byte?

5

Every programmer should be able to convert between decimal, binary, and hexadecimal notation, and be able to understand the bit-shift and bitwise operations.

6

I suppose it's done this way because there's no way to represent a hexadecimal number except as a string.

7

I agree that the opportunity to encode funny service names in hexadecimal trailing address space is an upside to eliminating ports.

8

If you want this function to print your integer as hexadecimal, for example, I guess you have to format it first.

9

The headline made me expect hexadecimal codes for classifying engineers.

10

But on the other hand, here's a chart with all of the values in hexadecimal plotted in a grid so I can understand and visualize the relationships between values in hexadecimal colour notation (like #1166aa).

11

> The tiles could have hexadecimal numbers on them and could be played against a randomly generated dictionary of scored combinations.

12

You'll get plenty of hexadecimal math practice.

Quote examples

1

Most "web programmers" manage to make a living without ever having to learn a complicated protocol or trying to figure out what a long string of hexadecimal digits means.

2

DNA is mostly "just" a string encoding for information, like binary or hexadecimal.

3

In case anyone doesn't recognize it, the hexadecimal value in the title text is the "magic" number used in the famous approximate inverse square root routine.

4

Use lowercase hexadecimal as the "baseline" password.

Proper noun examples

1

Hexadecimal notation must not be accompanied by decimal point, sign, or exponential notation.

2

(Hexadecimal #333 is my personal upper level of comfort on white backgrounds, anything above that begins physically hurting my eyes when reading any kind of long text).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use hexadecimal in a sentence?

Well, reading the hexadecimal interpretation of a memory dump full of little-endian data is annoying as fuck.

What does hexadecimal mean?

Of a number, expressed in hexadecimal.

What part of speech is hexadecimal?

hexadecimal is commonly used as adjective, noun.