American Standard Code for Information Interchange

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-001284",
  "term": "American Standard Code for Information Interchange",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. A binary code representing each letter, number, or other symbol with a unique 7-bit code. See also CODE (1).\n\n2. A standard text file format that contains alphanumeric characters.\n\n3. Pronounced ask-ee, ASCII is a code for representing English characters as numbers, with each letter assigned a number from 0 to 127. Most computers use ASCII codes to represent text, which makes it possible to transfer data from one computer to another.",
  "abbreviation": "ASCII",
  "subject": "Health and safety",
  "references": [
    "Records Glossary",
    "Emissions Inventory System Glossary",
    "Glossary for UV Database"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/american-standard-code-for-information-interchange/"
}