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1. (n.) byte
a group of adjacent bits, usu. eight, processed by a computer as a unit.
Etymology: (1959; orig. uncert.)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) byte
a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information
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1. (noun) byte
a unit of computer information or storage
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The New Hacker's Dictionary |
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1. byte
[techspeak] A unit of memory or data equal to the amount used to
represent one character; on modern architectures this is invariably 8 bits.
Some older architectures used byte
for quantities of 6, 7, or (especially) 9 bits, and the PDP-10 supported
bytes that were actually bitfields of
1 to 36 bits! These usages are now obsolete, killed off by universal
adoption of power-of-2 word sizes.Historical note: The term was coined by Werner Buchholz in 1956
during the early design phase for the IBM Stretch computer; originally it
was described as 1 to 6 bits (typical I/O equipment of the period used
6-bit chunks of information). The move to an 8-bit byte happened in late
1956, and this size was later adopted and promulgated as a standard by the
System/360. The word was coined by mutating the word ‘bite’ so
it would not be accidentally misspelled as bit. See
also nybble.
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Sense: a unit of memory in a computer equal to eight bits.
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 Afrikaans: greep |
 Arabic: بايْت (كومبيوتر) |
 Bulgarian: байт |
 Brazilian: byte |
 Czech: byte |
 German: Byte |
 Danish: byte |
 Greek: μπάιτ, μονάδα μέτρησης μν |
 Spanish: byte, octeto |
 Estonian: bait |
 Farsi: بایت |
 Finnish: tavu |
 French: octet |
 Hebrew: בִּיט |
 Hindi: बाइट, इकाई |
 Croatian: bajt, memorijska jedinica |
 Hungarian: byte (számítástechnikában |
 Indonesian: byte |
 Italian: byte |
 Japanese: バイト（８ビットの情報単位） |
 Korean: 바이트(컴퓨터에서 정보 전달 단위) |
 Lithuanian: baitas |
 Latvian: baits |
 Malay: bait |
 Dutch: byte |
 Norwegian: bitgruppe, byte |
 Persian: بایت |
 Pashto: بایت |
 Russian: байт |
 Slovak: jednotka pamäte počítača |
 Slovenian: zlog |
 Serbian: bajt |
 Swedish: byte |
 Thai: ไบต์ (หน่วยเก็บข้อมูลในคอ |
 Turkish: bayt, sekizli |
 Taiwanese: 位元組 |
 Ukrainian: байт |
 Urdu: کمپیوٹر میں یاد داشت کی س |
 Vietnamese: đơn vị bai của máy vi tín |
 Chinese: 字节 |
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