quadlet

De l'anglais quadlet.

quadlet \kwad.lɛ\ masculin

1. (Anglicisme informatique) (Extrêmement rare) Quadruplet.
   • Les mots de 32 bits sont appelés quadlets (terme non normalisé). — (Jean-Daniel Nicoud, Traité d’électricité, volume XIV : Calculatrices, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Presses polytechniques romandes, Lausanne, 1986 (2^e édition))

Dans le monde imprimé, cet ouvrage semble le seul à utiliser ce terme.

• octlet
• quartet

De quad- et -let.

quadlet \Prononciation ?\

1. (Astronautique) Quadruplet.
   • The Titan IV, Stage II, injector, shown in Fig. 5.3, uses a double doublet, or quadlet, pattern for the hypergolic propellants nitrogen tetroxide and a mixture of hydrazine and UDMH. In a quadlet, two streams of fuel and two streams of oxidizer are all directed at the same point. — (Charles D. Brown, Spacecraft Propulsion, AIAA Education Series, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Washington (DC), 1996)
2. (Informatique) Quartet.
   • The read quadlet transaction is used for minimum information transfer to access a single quadlet (four bytes) aligned register of the CSR structure. — (László Böszörményi, Günther Hölzl, Emaneul Pirker, Parallel Cluster Computing with IEEE1394–1995, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1557: Peter Zinterhof, ‎Marian Vajteršic, ‎Andreas Uhl, éditeurs, Parallel Computation: 4th International ACPC Conference including Special Tracks on Parallel Numerics (ParNum ’99) and Parallel Computing in Image Processing, Video Processing, and Multimedia, Salzburg, Austria, February 1999, Proceedings, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1999)
3. (Mathématiques) Quadruplet.
   • Consider quadlets from the top, namely cards in positions 1–4, 5–8, 9–12, and so on.
     Triskadequadra Principle
     Case 1 (good): Every quadlet is color balanced; in other words, it consists of two Reds and two Blacks.' — (Colm Mulcahy, Mathematical Card Magic: Fifty-Two New Effects, CRC Press, Boca Raton (FL), 2013)