computers: occurring at the level of individual bits or groups of bits (see bitentry 7 sense 2)
Microsoft had planned to change the behavior of the words to function only as logical operators, and it planned to add new operators for bitwise operations.—Carol Sliwa, Computerworld, 9 Apr. 2001
It speeds up parity-bit generation and parity checking by performing bit-wise XOR operations on as many as 16 simultaneous data-streams.—Tom R. Halfhill, IAC (SM) Newsletter Database, 25 Oct. 2004
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