Byte

noun

/baɪt/

Word Frequency: 3.0

Definitions

1.nounA short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.

2.noun(most commonly) 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."

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