see|Byte
English
Etymology
Expansion of bit, coined by Dr. Werner Buchholz in July 1956, during the early design phase for the w:IBM 7030|IBM Stretch computer.123
Pronunciation
bīt
IPA|/baɪt/
audio|en-us-byte.ogg|Audio (US)
Rhymes:English:-aɪt|Rhymes: -aɪt
Homophones
bight, bite
Noun
en-noun
wikipedia
- A sequence of adjacent bits, almost always eight, operated on as a unit by a computer; can represent an integer from 0 to 255, a pair of hexadecimal digits each from 0 to F, a pair of packed decimal digits each from 0 to 9, a packed decimal digit and a sign or a single character
#: The word �hello� fits into 5 bytes of ASCII code.
Derived terms
gigabyte
kilobyte
mid
megabyte
terabyte
Translations
Cantonese: å�ç¯� (ji6 jit3)
Chinese: å�ç¯�, å�è�� (zì jié)
Croatian: t-|hr|bajt|m
Czech: t+|cs|byte|m
Esperanto: bajto, bitoko
Finnish: t+|fi|tavu
French: t+|fr|octet|m
Galician: byte m
German: t-|de|Byte|n
Greek: δ��ιο��λλαβή, δ��ιοοκ�άδα
mid
trreq|Hebrew
Icelandic: t-|is|tölvustafur|m
lt: t+|lt|baitas|m|xs=Lithuanian
Polish: t+|pl|bajt|m
Russian: бай� (bajt) m, ок�е� (oktét) m
Slovak: t-|sk|byte|m
Spanish: t+|es|byte|m
Swedish: t-|sv|byte|c
Turkish: t-|tr|byte
Category:Jargon:Computer
Swedish
Pronunciation
audio|Sv-byte.ogg|audio
Noun
;byte
sv-noun|byte|bytet|byten|bytena|bytes|bytets|bytens|bytenas|genderneuter|definitions(1, 2)
sv-noun|byte|byten|byte|byten|bytes|bytens|bytes|bytens|gendercommon|definitions(3)
- n, IPAchar|�by�t�: A trading; exchange; change
- n, IPAchar|�by�t�: plunder; loot
- c, IPAchar|bajt, baɪt: #English|byte
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