byte
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- noun
- /baɪt/
- Specialized
:
byte
- A byte consists of eight bits, which can represent a character in computing, such as a letter or number.
- 128 bytes
- 256 bytes
- 64 bytes
Examples
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We no longer care whether memory is updated a byte or a word at a time.
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Data blocks may range in size from 256 bytes to 4K bytes in a single operation.
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Well, I-i know the difference between a bit and a byte.
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So they send the node address and they then send one byte of data.
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Every byte of data flows through there.
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We load the exam low, the low order byte, and we print that byte.
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And it's just six bytes and it's read only.
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How many bytes are in a KIBI byte?
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So we need to assign these bytes into the memory locations.
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Each unit of Java bytecode (the op-code) is exactly one byte long and is well defined.
Academic text (2011)
How Large
Surface Forms
Etymology
Byte comes from the English word bite, which means 'a small piece taken from food', but early computer designers changed the spelling to use a y so it would not be confused with the word bit. A byte is like a small 'bite' of information — usually eight bits — so the name helps you remember it is a small chunk of data.