byte en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /baɪt/
- (US) audio
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.
Meanings
- A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.
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(qualifier:most commonly) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values.
If you look at the photograph of the interior of the Spectrum[…], you will see that there is one ROM chip, and 16 smaller RAM chips. These chips give the Spectrum its memory. The memory consists of 65536 storage units that each contain one byte (a number from 0 to 255).
1984, Neil Ardley, “The ZX Spectrum+ Memory Map”, Learn About Your ZX Spectrum+ (3), in Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ User Guide, Dorling Kindersley, →ISBN, page 48:With a varchar, the storage is always the actual number of characters you have stored plus 2 bytes. So a varchar(20) with a 5-character word will take up 7 bytes, with the extra 2 bytes holding a size reference for SQL Server.
2008, Eric Johnson, Joshua Jones, A Developer's Guide to Data Modeling for SQL Server:The word “hello” fits into five bytes of ASCII code.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bytes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
nybble (Previous) · nibble (Previous) · bit (Previous) · kilobyte (Next) · word (Next)
Deriveds
byte order (Compound words) · gigabyte (Compound words) · bytesexual (Compound words) · terabyte (Compound words) · pebibyte (Compound words) · quebibyte (Compound words) · kilobyte (Compound words) · interbyte (Compound words) · ronnabyte (Compound words) · queccabyte (Compound words) · yobibyte (Compound words) · geopbyte (Compound words) · tebibyte (Compound words) · exabyte (Compound words) · byte-order mark (other phrases) · most significant byte (other phrases) · bytecode (Compound words) · byte bucket (Compound words) · zettabyte (Compound words) · multibyte (Compound words) · multi-byte (other phrases) · brontobyte (Compound words) · yottabyte (Compound words) · least significant byte (other phrases) · byter (Compound words) · megabyte (Compound words) · qubibyte (Compound words) · nonbyte (Compound words) · petabyte (Compound words) · bytestring (Compound words) · mebibyte (Compound words) · exbibyte (Compound words) · byte order mark (other phrases) · byte pair encoding (other phrases) · gibibyte (Compound words) · byte code (other phrases) · tryte (Compound words) · kibibyte (Compound words) · zebibyte (Compound words) · qubyte (Compound words) · quettabyte (Compound words) · robibyte (Compound words) · hellabyte (Compound words) · bytewise (Compound words)
Relateds
char · doubleword · longword · word
Synonyms
Translations (88)
cs bajt (8-bit unit) · ur لکمہ (8-bit unit) · nod ᨷᩱ (8-bit unit) · es byte (8-bit unit) · it multipletto (8-bit unit) · fr octet (8-bit unit) · sh bajt (8-bit unit) · lo ໄບ (8-bit unit) · de Byte (8-bit unit) · af greep (8-bit unit) · ug بايت (8-bit unit) · bg байт (8-bit unit) · yue 位元組 /位元组 (8-bit unit) · mi paita (8-bit unit) · bn বাইট (8-bit unit) · lt baitas (8-bit unit) · vi bai-tơ (8-bit unit) · is tölvustafur (8-bit unit) · eo okopo (8-bit unit) · br eizhbit (8-bit unit) · khb ᦢᦺ (8-bit unit) · ar بَايْت (8-bit unit) · ky байт (8-bit unit) · la octetus (8-bit unit) · cy beit (8-bit unit) · sh бајт (8-bit unit) · be байт (8-bit unit) · eo bajto (8-bit unit) · pt baite (8-bit unit) · ca octet (8-bit unit) · uk байт (8-bit unit) · it ottetto (8-bit unit) · cmn 字節 /字节 (8-bit unit) · sk byte (8-bit unit) · is bæti (8-bit unit) · hi बाइट (8-bit unit) · ms bait (8-bit unit) · it bicarattere (8-bit unit) · my ဘိုက် (8-bit unit) · ka ბაიტი (8-bit unit) · km បៃ (8-bit unit) · nv łaʼííłké (8-bit unit) · si බයිට (8-bit unit) · vi byte (8-bit unit) · ru окте́т (8-bit unit) · kk байт (8-bit unit) · es octeto (8-bit unit) · pl bajt (8-bit unit) · uz bayt (8-bit unit) · bo ཡིག་ཚིགས (8-bit unit) · az bayt (8-bit unit) · ca byte (8-bit unit) · eo bitoko (8-bit unit) · el μπάιτ (8-bit unit) · gl byte (8-bit unit) · fa بایت (8-bit unit) · zu isimumathalwazi (8-bit unit) · id bita (8-bit unit) · el δυφιοοκτάδα (8-bit unit) · tg байт (8-bit unit) · ru байт (8-bit unit) · cmn 位元組 /位元组 (8-bit unit) · ja バイト (8-bit unit) · tr bayt (8-bit unit) · cs byte (8-bit unit) · el δυφιοσυλλαβή (8-bit unit) · ia byte (8-bit unit) · sv byte (8-bit unit) · io bicoko (8-bit unit) · sw baiti (8-bit unit) · mk бајт (8-bit unit) · he בַּיִת (8-bit unit) · yue 字節 /字节 (8-bit unit) · fi tavu (8-bit unit) · yi בײַט (8-bit unit) · th ไบต์ (8-bit unit) · et bait (8-bit unit) · ro octet (8-bit unit) · lv baits (8-bit unit) · it byte (8-bit unit) · vi bai (8-bit unit) · ko 바이트 (8-bit unit) · lo ໄບຕ໌ (8-bit unit) · hy բայտ (8-bit unit) · ro byte (8-bit unit) · sk bajt (8-bit unit) · pt byte (8-bit unit) · hu byte (8-bit unit)