full-word boundary
full-word boundary
[′fu̇l ‚wərd ′bau̇n·drē] (computer science)
In the IBM 360 system, any address which ends in 00, and is therefore a natural boundary for a four-byte machine word.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.