byte

CEFRC1

/baɪt/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A unit of computer information equal to eight bits.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values.

Examples

  • A typical byte is eight bits, meaning eight 1s and 0s.

  • A standard byte is eight bits.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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3
Parts of speech
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Citations
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Synonyms
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Deep Dive

noun

Extra meaning

  1. A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.

More examples

In context

  • The word “hello” fits into five bytes of ASCII code.

  • 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.

Synonyms

Quick test

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A single character of text typically takes up one blank in memory.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

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.