byte
/baɪt/ noun B1- A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.
- A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values. · The word “hello” fits into five bytes of ASCII code.
Plural bytes
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