byte
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Definition of byte
: a unit of computer information or data-storage capacity that consists of a group of eight bits and that is used especially to represent an alphanumeric character — compare word entry 1 sense 10
Examples of byte in a Sentence
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The torrent of bits and bytes pours into laptops and phones held in the hands of billions. — Mike Oliver | Moliver@al.com, al, "My Vinyl Countdown is all ears as it enters The Twighlight Zone," 17 Aug. 2019 While Silicon Valley focuses on moving bytes, Detroit will focus on moving people. — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, "Ford revels in a new 'city of possibility'; residents hopeful, skeptical," 20 June 2018 The data associated with incoming calls is limited to 512 bytes, which RapidSOS CEO Michael Martin notes is less than what traveled along the first transatlantic cable. — Brian Barrett, WIRED, "By Pushing Your Location Straight to 911, iOS 12 Will Save Lives," 18 June 2018 As James surely understands, opening a vacuum can say far more than a sound byte. — Ben Golliver, SI.com, "How the Lakers Fit Into the Landscape of LeBron Suitors Remains to be Seen," 12 Mar. 2018 Here is the good word, from none other than original Vine's original dad, Dom Hofmann: Details about this new Vine successor, called byte with an assertively casual b, are scarce, but hopefully there's not much to know. — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, "The Only Good Part of the Internet Is Coming Back," 8 Nov. 2018 These programs, often favored by programmers, deal with text in a purer form: as characters stored as bytes of data with no formatting, no page size. — Rachel Z. Arndt, Popular Mechanics, "Why You Should Ditch Microsoft Word for NotePad," 8 Mar. 2019 In hip-hop, especially, an album is now a data set — bytes first, music second. — New York Times, "Post Malone and Rae Sremmurd, Hip-Hop Impressionists Shaping the Stream," 9 May 2018 The data associated with incoming calls is limited to 512 bytes, which RapidSOS CEO Michael Martin notes is less than what traveled along the first transatlantic cable. — Brian Barrett, WIRED, "By Pushing Your Location Straight to 911, iOS 12 Will Save Lives," 18 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'byte.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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byte
noun
English Language Learners Definition of byte
: a unit of computer information that is equal to eight bits
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byte
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Kids Definition of byte
: a group of eight bits that a computer handles as a unit
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