Yes and no - the term was used early to describe the native register size of a microprocessor. Later on, when microprocessors began offering instructions that c

Yes and no - the term was used early to describe the native register size of a microprocessor. Later on, when microprocessors began offering instructions that could deal with varying data size, it became one of several terms used, e.g. the Motorola 680x0 which uses the terms bytes (8 bits), words (16 bits) and longwords (32 bits).