: 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
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There is the sound byte all those f***ing losers are going to steal and put on their Twitter.
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Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
Imagine a world where every byte of unused data becomes a revenue stream, fueling the next wave of AI innovation.
—Ashutosh Synghal, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Furthermore, unlike the wetware issues associated with human intelligence residing in a biological brain, AGI can simply move around bits and bytes within its software and hardware.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
For a Big Endian to talk to a Little Endian, the byte order had to be reversed in real time.
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2017
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Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
Imagine a world where every byte of unused data becomes a revenue stream, fueling the next wave of AI innovation.
—Ashutosh Synghal, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Furthermore, unlike the wetware issues associated with human intelligence residing in a biological brain, AGI can simply move around bits and bytes within its software and hardware.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025
For a Big Endian to talk to a Little Endian, the byte order had to be reversed in real time.
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 June 2017
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“Byte.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/byte. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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byte
noun
: a group of eight bits that a computer handles as a unit
Etymology
possibly an altered form of bite
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