wordwise

wordwise

English

Etymology

From word +‎ -wise.

Adjective

wordwise (not comparable)

1. Of or characteristic of a word or words; verbal.
   • 1995, American Psychological Association, Psychological abstracts:

     Wordwise feedback produced significantly higher gains than listwise.

   • 2006, Wolfgang Wahlster, SmartKom: foundations of multimodal dialogue systems:

     Both the wordwise and sentencewise results are computed (in %) applied for the user state recognition in our case due to the construction of […]

2. (computing) In terms of words (fixed groups of binary digits); one word of data at a time.

   Coordinate terms: bitwise, bytewise

Adverb

wordwise (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to, concerning, or regarding words; verbally.
   • 2005, Charles Harrington Elster, What in the word?:

     Turn the page and get an edge in wordwise.

2. (computing) In terms of words (fixed groups of binary digits); one word of data at a time.

Anagrams

• widowers