nibble
- noun
- /ˈnɪbəl/
- Specialized
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medio byte
- Just, the eclipse is only partial, a black mouse-nibble at the top.
Examples
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How do we make it carry over into this left hand nibble here when it doesn't want to at the moment?
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I think I have a nibble.
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Well the name nibble caught on for obvious reasons, a nibble being a small byte and I'll use an I.
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So half of each one of these nibbles here is a is a sample and we can look through here and look for a zero and that sort of thing.
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Two hundred send-outs and no nibbles.
Fiction book (1992) -
I don't know, like a drywall nibble, doubler, a nibble.
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If I didn't have to worry about unauthorized nibbles on the neck...
Fiction book (1990) -
Applied in computer chips, lasers, even LEDs, an electron probability cloud is only a nibble of the cookie.
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In computing, a nibble consists of four bits, making it half of a byte.
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A nibble represents a small unit of data, typically used in digital systems.
Synonyms
Four bits that equal half a byte in computers
Idioms
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Etymology
In computers, a nibble is a playful name for a small 'bite' of data — it is 'half' of a byte and equals four 'bits'. Engineers even spell it nybble as a joke on byte, which is why the word means a group of four bits.