: 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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The reality is that AGI is simply bits and bytes, but that won’t suit some who distrust that rationalistic explanation.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
When prominent figures like RFK Jr. who question scientific facts have their opinions spread insidiously on social media through memes and sound bytes, seeds of doubt are planted that grow into vaccine hesitancy.
—Dr. Eve Meltzer Krief, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2025
By flooding a single server with millions of bytes of traffic, the DDoS attack forced the system to crash.
—Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
There is the sound byte all those f***ing losers are going to steal and put on their Twitter.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
When prominent figures like RFK Jr. who question scientific facts have their opinions spread insidiously on social media through memes and sound bytes, seeds of doubt are planted that grow into vaccine hesitancy.
—Dr. Eve Meltzer Krief, New York Daily News, 29 Jan. 2025
By flooding a single server with millions of bytes of traffic, the DDoS attack forced the system to crash.
—Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
There is the sound byte all those f***ing losers are going to steal and put on their Twitter.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
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“Byte.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/byte. Accessed 30 Jun. 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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