English Explanatory Dictionary

byte

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.
  2. A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values.

Pronunciation

/baɪt/ en-us-byte.ogg

Word forms

byte bytes

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.

Synonyms

B octet

Related words

word doubleword longword char

Derived words

brontobyte byte bucket bytecode byte order byter bytesexual bytestring bytewise exabyte exbibyte geopbyte gibibyte gigabyte hellabyte interbyte kibibyte kilobyte mebibyte megabyte multibyte nonbyte pebibyte petabyte qubibyte qubyte quebibyte queccabyte quettabyte robibyte ronnabyte tebibyte terabyte tryte yobibyte yottabyte zebibyte zettabyte byte code byte order mark byte-order mark byte pair encoding least significant byte most significant byte multi-byte

Translations

Afrikaans: greep Arabic: بَايْت Armenian: բայտ Azerbaijani: bayt Belarusian: байт Bengali: বাইট Breton: eizhbit Bulgarian: байт Burmese: ဘိုက် Catalan: byte Catalan: octet Chinese Cantonese: 字節 /字节 Chinese Cantonese: 位元組 /位元组 Chinese Mandarin: 字節 /字节 Chinese Mandarin: 位元組 /位元组 Czech: bajt Czech: byte Esperanto: bajto Esperanto: bitoko Esperanto: okopo Estonian: bait Finnish: tavu French: octet Galician: byte Georgian: ბაიტი German: Byte Greek: μπάιτ Greek: δυφιοσυλλαβή Greek: δυφιοοκτάδα Hebrew: בַּיִת Hindi: बाइट Hungarian: byte Icelandic: bæti Icelandic: tölvustafur Ido: bicoko Indonesian: bita Interlingua: byte Italian: byte Italian: bicarattere Italian: ottetto Italian: multipletto Japanese: バイト Kazakh: байт Khmer: បៃ Korean: 바이트 Kyrgyz: байт Lao: ໄບຕ໌ Lao: ໄບ Latin: octetus Latvian: baits Lithuanian: baitas Lü: ᦢᦺ Macedonian: бајт
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