byte

A mutation of the word bite so it would not be accidentally misspelled as 'bit'. It was coined by Dr. Werner Buchholz in July 1956, during the early design phase for the IBM Stretch computer.

• IPA^(key): /baɪt/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -aɪt
• Homophones: bight, bite, by't

byte (plural bytes)

1. (computing) A sequence of adjacent bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word; nearly always eight bits, which can represent an integer from 0 to 255 or a single character of text.
2. (computing) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits

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

• (unit of storage): B
• (eight bits): octet

(unit of storage):

• kilobyte
• megabyte
• gigabyte
• terabyte
• petabyte
• exabyte
• yottabyte

(unit of storage):

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(machine word):

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• word, doubleword, longword, char

• beyt, ybet

Borrowed from English byte.

byte

1. (slang, rare) byte

• tavu

Borrowed from English byte.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaːjt]
• Hyphenation: byte

byte (plural byte-ok)

1. (computing) byte (a unit of computing storage equal to eight bits)

Borrowed from English byte.

byte m (invariable)

1. (computing) byte

• bicarattere

byte

1. Alternative form of biten

• baite

• IPA^(key): /ˈbajt(ʃ)(i)/

byte m (plural bytes)

1. (computing) byte (unit equivalent to 8 bits)

• Abbreviations: B

• Multiples: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

• bit

byte m (plural bytes)

1. byte

Related to byta (“to change, to exchange, to swap”)

• audio

  (file)

• IPA^(key): /ˈbyːtɛ/

byte n

1. trading, exchange, change
2. catch, plunder, loot

Borrowed from English byte.

• IPA^(key): /bajt/, /baɪt/

byte c

1. a byte (8 bits, in computers)

• byte in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)