A standard byte is eight bits.
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Byte
//baɪt//
Synonyms for "byte" (18 found)
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Related words (9)
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2 entriesRelated terms
4 entriescoordinate
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1 entriesis a
3 entriesmade of
1 entriespart of
1 entriesreceives action
1 entriesrelated to
12 entriesTranslations
89 translations across 67 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- greep noun (8-bit unit)
Arabic
1 entries- بَايْت noun (8-bit unit)
Armenian
1 entries- բայտ noun (8-bit unit)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- bayt noun (8-bit unit)
Belarusian
1 entries- байт noun (8-bit unit)
Bengali
1 entries- বাইট noun (8-bit unit)
Breton
1 entries- eizhbit noun (8-bit unit)
Bulgarian
1 entries- байт noun (8-bit unit)
Burmese
1 entries- ဘိုက် noun (8-bit unit)
Catalan
2 entries- byte noun (8-bit unit)
- octet noun (8-bit unit)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 位元組 /位元组 noun (8-bit unit)
- 字節 /字节 noun (8-bit unit)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 位元組 /位元组 noun (8-bit unit)
- 字節 /字节 noun (8-bit unit)
Czech
2 entries- bajt noun (8-bit unit)
- byte noun (8-bit unit)
Esperanto
4 entries- bajto noun (8-bit unit)
- bitoko noun (8-bit unit)
- duumoko noun (8-bit unit)
- okopo noun (8-bit unit)
Estonian
1 entries- bait noun (8-bit unit)
Finnish
1 entries- tavu noun (8-bit unit)
French
1 entries- octet noun (8-bit unit)
Galician
1 entries- byte noun (8-bit unit)
Georgian
1 entries- ბაიტი noun (8-bit unit)
German
1 entries- Byte noun (8-bit unit)
Greek
3 entries- δυφιοοκτάδα noun (8-bit unit)
- δυφιοσυλλαβή noun (8-bit unit)
- μπάιτ noun (8-bit unit)
Hebrew
1 entries- בַּיִת noun (8-bit unit)
Hindi
1 entries- बाइट noun (8-bit unit)
Hungarian
1 entries- byte noun (8-bit unit)
Icelandic
2 entries- bæti noun (8-bit unit)
- tölvustafur noun (8-bit unit)
Ido
1 entries- bicoko noun (8-bit unit)
Indonesian
1 entries- bita noun (8-bit unit)
Interlingua
1 entries- byte noun (8-bit unit)
Italian
4 entries- bicarattere noun (8-bit unit)
- byte noun (8-bit unit)
- multipletto noun (8-bit unit)
- ottetto noun (8-bit unit)
Japanese
1 entries- バイト noun (8-bit unit)
Kazakh
1 entries- байт noun (8-bit unit)
Khmer
1 entries- បៃ noun (8-bit unit)
Korean
1 entries- 바이트 noun (8-bit unit)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- байт noun (8-bit unit)
Lao
2 entries- ໄບ noun (8-bit unit)
- ໄບຕ໌ noun (8-bit unit)
Latin
1 entries- octetus noun (8-bit unit)
Latvian
1 entries- baits noun (8-bit unit)
Lithuanian
1 entries- baitas noun (8-bit unit)
Lü
1 entries- ᦢᦺ noun (8-bit unit)
Macedonian
1 entries- бајт noun (8-bit unit)
Malay
1 entries- bait noun (8-bit unit)
Māori
1 entries- paita noun (8-bit unit)
Navajo
1 entries- łaʼííłké noun (8-bit unit)
Northern Thai
1 entries- ᨷᩱ noun (8-bit unit)
Persian
1 entries- بایت noun (8-bit unit)
Polish
1 entries- bajt noun (8-bit unit)
Portuguese
2 entries- baite noun (8-bit unit)
- byte noun (8-bit unit)
Romanian
2 entries- byte noun (8-bit unit)
- octet noun (8-bit unit)
Russian
2 entries- байт noun (8-bit unit)
- окте́т noun (8-bit unit)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- bajt noun (8-bit unit)
- бајт noun (8-bit unit)
Sinhalese
1 entries- බයිට noun (8-bit unit)
Slovak
2 entries- bajt noun (8-bit unit)
- byte noun (8-bit unit)
Spanish
2 entries- byte noun (8-bit unit)
- octeto noun (8-bit unit)
Swahili
1 entries- baiti noun (8-bit unit)
Swedish
1 entries- byte noun (8-bit unit)
Tajik
1 entries- байт noun (8-bit unit)
Thai
1 entries- ไบต์ noun (8-bit unit)
Tibetan
1 entries- ཡིག་ཚིགས noun (8-bit unit)
Turkish
1 entries- bayt noun (8-bit unit)
Ukrainian
1 entries- байт noun (8-bit unit)
Urdu
1 entries- لکمہ noun (8-bit unit)
Uyghur
1 entries- بايت noun (8-bit unit)
Uzbek
1 entries- bayt noun (8-bit unit)
Vietnamese
3 entries- bai noun (8-bit unit)
- bai-tơ noun (8-bit unit)
- byte noun (8-bit unit)
Welsh
1 entries- beit noun (8-bit unit)
Yiddish
1 entries- בײַט noun (8-bit unit)
Zulu
1 entries- isimumathalwazi noun (8-bit unit)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
A typical byte is eight bits, meaning eight 1s and 0s.
Source: tatoeba (9432639)
A byte was originally the number of bits required to represent a single character of text.
Source: tatoeba (11857192)
The word “hello” fits into five bytes of ASCII code.
Source: wiktionary
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