byte

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.
  2. 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.

词形变化

bytes plural

词汇关系

相关词
word doubleword longword char
并列词
nibble nybble bit

词源

An alteration of the word bite so it would not be accidentally misspelled as bit. Coined by Werner Buchholz in 1956, during the early design phase for the IBM 7030 Stretch computer.
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