"code unit" meaning in All languages combined

See code unit on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: code units [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} code unit (plural code units)
  1. (computing) A minimum bit combination that can represent a single character in a given character encoding, such as 7-bit in classic ASCII or 8-bit in UTF-8.

Inflected forms

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