"byte" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /baɪt/ Audio: en-us-byte.ogg Forms: bytes [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪt 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. Etymology templates: {{coin|en|Werner Buchholz|in=1956|nobycat=1}} Coined by Werner Buchholz in 1956 Head templates: {{en-noun}} byte (plural bytes)
  1. (computing) A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word. Categories (topical): Computing
    Sense id: en-byte-en-noun-J1vfnIjr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Terms with Afrikaans translations, Terms with Arabic translations, Terms with Armenian translations, Terms with Azerbaijani translations, Terms with Belarusian translations, Terms with Bengali translations, Terms with Breton translations, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Burmese translations, Terms with Cantonese translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Estonian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with Georgian translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hebrew translations, Terms with Hindi translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Icelandic translations, Terms with Ido translations, Terms with Interlingua translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Kazakh translations, Terms with Khmer translations, Terms with Korean translations, Terms with Kyrgyz translations, Terms with Lao translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Latvian translations, Terms with Lithuanian translations, Terms with Lü translations, Terms with Macedonian translations, Terms with Malay translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Navajo translations, Terms with Northern Thai translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Sinhalese translations, Terms with Slovak translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations, Terms with Tajik translations, Terms with Thai translations, Terms with Turkish translations, Terms with Ukrainian translations, Terms with Urdu translations, Terms with Uyghur translations, Terms with Uzbek translations, Terms with Vietnamese translations, Terms with Welsh translations, Terms with Yiddish translations, Terms with Zulu translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 70 30 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Afrikaans translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Arabic translations: 69 31 Disambiguation of Terms with Armenian translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Azerbaijani translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Belarusian translations: 71 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Bengali translations: 66 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Breton translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 67 33 Disambiguation of Terms with Burmese translations: 62 38 Disambiguation of Terms with Cantonese translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of 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translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Kazakh translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Khmer translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Korean translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Kyrgyz translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Lao translations: 64 36 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Latvian translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Lithuanian translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Lü translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Macedonian translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Malay translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 66 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Navajo translations: 71 29 Disambiguation of Terms with Northern Thai translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 70 30 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 66 34 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Sinhalese translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Slovak translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Tajik translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Thai translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Turkish translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Ukrainian translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Urdu translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Uyghur translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Uzbek translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Vietnamese translations: 65 35 Disambiguation of Terms with Welsh translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Yiddish translations: 72 28 Disambiguation of Terms with Zulu translations: 69 31 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
  2. (computing, most commonly) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values. Wikidata QID: Q8799 Categories (topical): Computing Synonyms: B, octet Translations (8-bit unit): greep (Afrikaans), بَايْت (bāyt) [masculine] (Arabic), բայտ (bayt) (Armenian), bayt (Azerbaijani), байт (bajt) [masculine] (Belarusian), বাইট (baiṭ) (Bengali), eizhbit [masculine] (Breton), байт (bajt) [masculine] (Bulgarian), ဘိုက် (bhuik) (Burmese), byte [masculine] (Catalan), octet [masculine] (Catalan), 字節 (Chinese Cantonese), 字节 (zi⁶ zit³) (Chinese Cantonese), 位元組 (Chinese Cantonese), 位元组 (wai⁶ jyun⁴ zou²) (Chinese Cantonese), 字節 (Chinese Mandarin), 字节 (zìjié) (Chinese Mandarin), 位元組 (Chinese Mandarin), 位元组 (wèiyuánzǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), bajt [masculine] (Czech), byte [masculine] (Czech), bitoko (Esperanto), bajto (Esperanto), bait (Estonian), tavu (Finnish), octet [masculine] (French), byte [masculine] (Galician), ბაიტი (baiṭi) (Georgian), Byte [neuter] (German), μπάιτ (báit) (Greek), δυφιοσυλλαβή (dyfiosyllaví) (Greek), δυφιοοκτάδα (dyfiooktáda) (Greek), בַּיִת (báyit) (Hebrew), बाइट (bāiṭ) (Hindi), byte (Hungarian), bæti [neuter] (Icelandic), tölvustafur [character, masculine] [computer, computing, engineering, mathematics, sciences, physical-sciences, natural-sciences] (Icelandic), bicoko (Ido), byte (Interlingua), byte [masculine] (Italian), bicarattere [masculine, rare] (Italian), ottetto [masculine, rare] (Italian), multipletto [masculine, rare] (Italian), バイト (baito) (Japanese), байт (bait) (Kazakh), បៃ (bai) (Khmer), 바이트 (baiteu) (Korean), байт (bayt) (Kyrgyz), ໄບຕ໌ (bait) (Lao), ໄບ (bai) (Lao), octetus [masculine] (Latin), baits [masculine] (Latvian), baitas [masculine] (Lithuanian), ᦢᦺ (ḃay) (), бајт (bajt) [masculine] (Macedonian), bait (Malay), paita (Maori), łaʼííłké (Navajo), ᨷᩱ (Northern Thai), بایت (bâyt) (Persian), bajt [masculine] (Polish), byte [masculine] (Portuguese), baite [masculine] (Portuguese), byte [masculine] (Romanian), octet [masculine] (Romanian), байт (bajt) [masculine] (Russian), окте́т (oktét) [masculine] (Russian), бајт [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), bajt [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), බයිට (bayiṭa) (Sinhalese), bajt [masculine] (Slovak), byte [masculine] (Slovak), byte [masculine] (Spanish), byte [common-gender] (Swedish), байт (bayt) (Tajik), ไบต์ (bái) (Thai), bayt (Turkish), байт (bajt) [masculine] (Ukrainian), لکمہ (Urdu), بايت (bayt) (Uyghur), bayt (Uzbek), byte (Vietnamese), bai (Vietnamese), bai-tơ (Vietnamese), beit [masculine] (Welsh), בײַט (bayt) (Yiddish), isimumathalwazi (Zulu)
    Sense id: en-byte-en-noun-en:Q8799 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of '8-bit unit': 44 56
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: word, doubleword, longword, char Coordinate_terms (Next): word, kilobyte Coordinate_terms (Previous): nibble, nybble, bit

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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).",
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "бајт"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "8-bit unit",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bajt"
    },
    {
      "code": "si",
      "lang": "Sinhalese",
      "roman": "bayiṭa",
      "sense": "8-bit unit",
      "word": "බයිට"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "8-bit unit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bajt"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "8-bit unit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "byte"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "8-bit unit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "byte"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "8-bit unit",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "byte"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "bayt",
      "sense": "8-bit unit",
      "word": "байт"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "bái",
      "sense": "8-bit unit",
      "word": "ไบต์"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "8-bit unit",
      "word": "bayt"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "bajt",
      "sense": "8-bit unit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "байт"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "sense": "8-bit unit",
      "word": "لکمہ"
    },
    {
      "code": "ug",
      "lang": "Uyghur",
      "roman": "bayt",
      "sense": "8-bit unit",
      "word": "بايت"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "8-bit unit",
      "word": "bayt"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "8-bit unit",
      "word": "byte"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "8-bit unit",
      "word": "bai"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "8-bit unit",
      "word": "bai-tơ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "8-bit unit",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "beit"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "bayt",
      "sense": "8-bit unit",
      "word": "בײַט"
    },
    {
      "code": "zu",
      "lang": "Zulu",
      "sense": "8-bit unit",
      "word": "isimumathalwazi"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "IBM 7030 Stretch"
  ],
  "word": "byte"
}

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