Learn English – the proper term for a ternary digit

try antithesis

1. Direct contrast; opposition.
2. The direct or exact opposite

It is word which is 16 bits.

They are (in order of increasing size)

BIT, NIBBLE, BYTE, WORD, DWORD, FWORD, QWORD, KiloByte, MegaByte

Please note that a word is the standard memory bus width in your architecture. It can be 8 bits or 16 bits or 32 bits or 64 bits based on the CPU.

You can read more about assembler(binary) here (this is a random link I found on google for your reference, but I verified that the information is correct about the above mentioned. Search on google).