bit bucket

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈbɪt ˌbʌ.kɪt/|/-kət/    /ˈbɪt ˌbʌ.kət/|/-kɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A container for holding chad (“small punched-out pieces of paper”) from paper tape or punch cards used with teleprinters, early computers, and other machines. historical
    — The lost bits fall into a container called a bit bucket. They are emptied periodically and the collected bits are used for confetti at weddings, parties, and other festive occasions.
  2. An imaginary domain that accepts lost, discarded, or useless digital data that does not reach its intended destination, such as data lost in transmission or due to errors; the notional resting place of lost or missing digital information. broadly,humorous,slang
    — Applications [...] Overflow register (bit bucket)
动词 v.
  1. To delete. humorous,slang,transitive
    — This DSC receives all inputs and performs all computations in synchronization with the online computer; however, the DSC outputs are "bit bucketed."

词形变化

bit buckets plural bitbucket alternative bit-bucket alternative bit buckets present,singular,third-person bit bucketing participle,present bit bucketed participle,past bit bucketed past bitbucket alternative bit-bucket alternative

词汇关系

词源

词源 1
The noun is derived from bit (“small amount of something; smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit”) + bucket. Bit in this context originally referred to small pieces of paper punched out from paper tape or punch cards (see sense 1), but came to be regarded as the unit of data storage (sense 2).
The verb is derived from the noun.
词源 2
The noun is derived from bit (“small amount of something; smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit”) + bucket. Bit in this context originally referred to small pieces of paper punched out from paper tape or punch cards (see sense 1), but came to be regarded as the unit of data storage (sense 2).
The verb is derived from the noun.
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