[ken]

> data to be transmitted in a byte, word or double word oriented format (i.e. in 8, 16 or 32-bits per code unit)

I don't think I've heard "word" mean "16 bits" since the 1980's ... and apparently neither has Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)#T...

[jontro]

In Windows world DWORD is 32 bits large: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols...

[pjtr]

And WORD 16 bits: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols...

(QWORD 64 bits)

[WalterGR]

The concept of the word size of an architecture is different than "word" which has long been used colloquially in computing to mean two bytes.

2 nibbles are a byte. 2 bytes are a word.

Edit: "Word" as two bytes may actually be a microcomputer-specific colloquialism.