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Meaning of "byte" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BYTE

Probably a blend of bit4 + bite.
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PRONUNCIATION OF BYTE

byte  [baɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BYTE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Byte is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BYTE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Byte

The byte /ˈbaɪt/ is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures. The size of the byte has historically been hardware dependent and no definitive standards existed that mandated the size. The de facto standard of eight bits is a convenient power of two permitting the values 0 through 255 for one byte. The international standard IEC 80000-13 codified this common meaning. Many types of applications use information representable in eight or fewer bits and processor designers optimize for this common usage. The popularity of major commercial computing architectures has aided in the ubiquitous acceptance of the 8-bit size. The unit octet was defined to explicitly denote a sequence of 8 bits because of the ambiguity associated at the time with the byte.

Definition of byte in the English dictionary

The first definition of byte in the dictionary is a group of bits, usually eight, processed as a single unit of data. Other definition of byte is the storage space in a memory or other storage device that is allocated to such a group of bits. Byte is also a subdivision of a word.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH BYTE


bright
braɪt
cite
saɪt
copyright
ˈkɒpɪˌraɪt
despite
dɪˈspaɪt
fight
faɪt
flight
flaɪt
height
haɪt
invite
ɪnˈvaɪt
knight
naɪt
light
laɪt
lite
laɪt
might
maɪt
night
naɪt
overnight
ˌəʊvəˈnaɪt
quite
kwaɪt
right
raɪt
satellite
ˈsætəˌlaɪt
site
saɪt
spotlight
ˈspɒtˌlaɪt
tight
taɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BYTE

byroom
byssaceous
byssal
byssi
byssine
byssinosis
byssoid
byssus
bystander
bystreet
bytalk
Bytom
bytownite
byway
bywoner
byword
bywork
byzant

WORDS THAT END LIKE BYTE

acolyte
adipocyte
astrocyte
brontobyte
electrolyte
erythrocyte
gigabyte
Hippolyte
kilobyte
leucocyte
leukocyte
Leyte
lymphocyte
megabyte
monocyte
neophyte
polyelectrolyte
proselyte
reticulocyte
terabyte

Synonyms and antonyms of byte in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «byte» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BYTE

Find out the translation of byte to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of byte from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «byte» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

字节
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

byte
570 millions of speakers

English

byte
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बाइट
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بايت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

байт
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

byte
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সংবাদের একক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

octet
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bait
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Byte
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

バイト
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

바이트
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Byte
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

byte
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பைட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बाइट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

bayt
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

byte
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bajt
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

байт
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

octet
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

byte
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

byte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

bitgrupp
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

byte
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of byte

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BYTE»

The term «byte» is very widely used and occupies the 12.815 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BYTE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «byte» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «byte» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about byte

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BYTE»

Discover the use of byte in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to byte and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Cutting Myself in Half: 150 Pounds Lost, One Byte at a Time
Cutting Myself in Half is Taylor's motivational strategy guide to THE ULTIMATE FITNESS GAME.Taylor shows kids who are currently where he was that weight loss and fitness are within reach . . . one workout, one calorie, one 'byte' at a time.
Mary Branson, Jack Branson, Taylor LeBaron, 2010
2
Byte
Most BYTE editors and columnists also have individual addresses for easy access. MCI: 250-0135 BYTE Magazine. Many editors also have individual MCI addresses in their own names. WEB: http://www.bYte.com U.S. fax: Editorial: ...
3
Mac OS X Unix 101 Byte-Sized Projects
Unix is no longer someone else's OS. With Mac OS X built on top of it, Unix is becoming a household name, and more and more Mac users are ready to take it on. This book is for them!
Adrian Mayo, 2006
4
The Byte Brothers Program a Problem
Use a computer to join forces with Brent and Barry Bytes and Elana to solve the mysteries.
Lois McCoy, Floyd W. McCoy, 1984
5
Byte, The Computer Mite
Alec Rowley. “Two thousand, four hundred and thirty six,” he said. “That many?” said the librarian, impressed. “And why would you need the titles of all my books? ” “Because I want to learn,” said Byte, “about Human Errors and The Outside.
Alec Rowley
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Byte Sized Television: Create Your Own TV Series for the ...
This book will help you create a TV series that will cut through the noise and find acclaim. Author Ross Brown has a proven track record of professional success, both as a creator and as a teacher.
Ross Brown, 2011
7
Computer Fundamentals: Architecture and Organization
Instructions are classified into the following three types according to their word length (i.e. length of the binary code): (i) Single-byte instruction (ii) Two-byte instruction (iii) Three-byte instruction The first byte of an instruction is the opcode of the ...
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8
The 8051/8052 Microcontroller: Architecture, Assembly ...
AT25010A has 128 bytes of EEPROM memory), followed by the byte to write to that address. For example, the sequence of bytes sent to the AT25010A to write the value 47h to address 54h of its memory would be: 02h 54h 47h The first byte,  ...
Craig Steiner, 2005
9
The Bios Companion
Hex Dec Size Function 30h 48 1 byte Actual Extended Memory Low Order Byte - Least significant byte 31h 49 1 byte Actual Extended Memory High Order Byte - Most significant byte 32h 50 1 byte Century Date BCD - Value for century of ...
Phil Croucher, 2001
10
Code Design for Dependable Systems: Theory and Practical ...
7.1 SPOTTY BYTE ERRORS Large—capacity high-speed memory systems often adopt high—density DRAM chips with wide I/O data. Examples of this type of recent DRAM architecture are 16 Mb chips with 8-bit I/O data [NUMA89], 256 Mb  ...
Eiji Fujiwara, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BYTE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term byte is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Meta Byte Technologies wins top award
Meta Byte Technologies, the next generation technology solution provider, has won the Metric Stream 'Partner of the Year 2015' award during ... «Trade Arabia, Jul 15»
2
Anno 2205 Preview: Fly Me to the Moon
The last game, Anno 2070, shifted the game into the future for the first time, which was a big risk for developer Blue Byte. Luckily, it was a risk ... «USgamer, Jul 15»
3
Amy Schumer And Her Adult-Sized Wine Glass Want to be on 'Real …
And though he puts her on the spot by asking her to pull a potential introduction byte out of thin air, she doesn't let the man see her sweat. «PopCrush, Jul 15»
4
After 20-month delay, a furious Newegg still can't appeal $2.3M …
... legal argument comes down to this: Newegg's encryption system doesn't change to a new "key value" after transmitting each byte of data. «Ars Technica, Jul 15»
5
IT Cloud Spending Drives Infrastructure Investments: IDC
... computer magazines, having been, among other things, a consulting editor for BYTE magazine and senior editor for the launch of WebWeek. «InformationWeek, Jul 15»
6
Ode To A Grecian Eurozone
Whatever the cause, I think we're losing our common cultural context, bit by byte. A community is defined by what it has in common, and the ... «MediaPost Communications, Jul 15»
7
CUMMINS: Your life will change
It would seem that as our data grows, we could somehow sort it out with a bigger-byte computer inserted inconspicuously in our heads. Yes, we ... «Newsandtribune, Jul 15»
8
Samsung 850 PRO SSD 2TB Review
The file server profile has 80% read and 20% write workload spread out over multiple transfer sizes ranging from 512-byte to 64KB. Again, the ... «StorageReview.com, Jul 15»
9
Videocon Telecom to offer 750 MB free data to non-data users
In totality, Videocon plans to give away over 1,500 tera-byte of free data to such subscribers, said the company. "We have been taking initiatives ... «ET Telecom, Jul 15»
10
DDoSers call 1988 and want its routing protocol hacked
... the attacks by causing routers to respond to requests directed at victims with larger payloads of up to 512 bytes for every 24 byte query. «The Register, Jul 15»

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