bit field

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bit field - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  bit field
      n 1: a field containing only binary characters

bit field - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  bit field
  
     <data> Part of an item of data, storage location or message,
     identified as a certain number of contiguous bits starting
     at a certain bit position within the data.  Bit position zero
     is usually the least significant bit.
  
     For example, in an ARM machine code instruction the
     four-bit field at bits 28 to 31 (the four most significant
     bits in the 32-bit word) is the "condition code".
  
     (2007-03-26)