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Byte

//baɪt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.
  2. 2
    a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information wordnet
  3. 3
    A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values.

    "The word “hello” fits into five bytes of ASCII code."

Etymology

An alteration of the word bite so it would not be accidentally misspelled as bit. Coined by Werner Buchholz in 1956, during the early design phase for the IBM 7030 Stretch computer.

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