byte
adjacent bits, usually eight, processed by a computer as a unit.
the combination of bits used to represent a particular letter, number, or special character.
Origin of byte
1Words that may be confused with byte
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How to use byte in a sentence
Was I becoming a ones-and-zeros, bits-and-bytes version of my mother?
They are more complicated than the president's sound bytes suggest, and raise very little money.
Obama's Budget: Has He Gone Too Far, or Not Far Enough? | Megan McArdle | April 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe talks to Lloyd Grove about why talking points and sound bytes inspired him.
The maximum data-transfer rate at Manitoba over a 2000-foot twisted pair cable is 50k bytes/sec.
On-Line Data-Acquisition Systems in Nuclear Physics, 1969 | H. W. Fulbright et al.It cannot even be expressed in our new measurement of bits and bytes and all kinds of flops.
The Civilization of Illiteracy | Mihai Nadin
By whome there cam a frere, seynge her and sayde in sporte: mayde, mayde, take hede: for Bayarde bytes on the brydell.
Shakespeare Jest-Books; | Unknown
British Dictionary definitions for byte
/ (baɪt) /
a group of bits, usually eight, processed as a single unit of data
the storage space in a memory or other storage device that is allocated to such a group of bits
a subdivision of a word
Origin of byte
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Scientific definitions for byte
[ bīt ]
A sequence of adjacent bits operated on as a unit by a computer. A byte usually consists of eight bits. Amounts of computer memory are often expressed in terms of megabytes (1,048,576 bytes) or gigabytes (1,073,741,824 bytes).
usage For byte
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Cultural definitions for byte
[ (beyet) ]
In computer technology, a unit of information made up of bits (often eight bits). The memory capacity of a typical personal computer runs from millions to billions of bytes.
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