byte

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.[1][2][3]

• IPA^(key): /baɪt/

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• Rhymes: -aɪt
• Homophones: bight, bite, by't

byte (plural bytes)

1. (computing) A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.
2. (computing, most commonly) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values.

   Synonyms: B, octet

   The word “hello” fits into five bytes of ASCII code.

(unit of storage):

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(unit of storage):

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• byte on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• beyt

• bajt

• IPA^(key): [ˈbajt]

byte m

1. byte

• kilobyte
• megabyte
• gigabyte
• terabyte

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɪtɛ]
• Homophone: bite

byte

1. vocative singular of byt

• byte in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• byte in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Borrowed from English byte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbyte/, [ˈbyt̪e̞]
• Rhymes: -yte
• Syllabification^(key): by‧te

byte

1. (slang, rare) byte

• tavu

Borrowed from English byte.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈbaːjt]
• Hyphenation: byte
• Rhymes: -aːjt
• Homophone: bájt

byte (plural byte-ok)

1. (computing) byte (a unit of computing storage equal to eight bits)

It also occurs in the form bájt (along with its prefixed forms), but this spelling is not supported by most authoritative spelling dictionaries.

• byte in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2023)
• Biró, János. Helyesírási kérdések A magyar nyelv nagyszótárának írása közben (“Questions of spelling while compiling the Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”) (see page 5 in the PDF, page 55 in the original)

Borrowed from English byte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbajt/
• Rhymes: -ajt

byte m (invariable)

1. (computing) byte

   Synonym: bicarattere

byte

1. Alternative form of biten

• baite

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈbajt(ʃ)(i)/

byte m (plural bytes)

1. (computing) byte (unit equivalent to 8 bits)

• Abbreviations: B

• Multiples: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

• bit

Unadapted borrowing from English byte.

byte m (plural byți)

1. (computing) byte

• bajt

byte m

1. byte

• byte in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Unadapted borrowing from English byte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbait/ [ˈbai̯t̪]
• Rhymes: -ait

byte m (plural bytes)

1. byte

• “byte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Related to byta (“to change, to exchange, to swap”)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈbyːtɛ/

byte n

1. trading, exchange, change

   Jag ger dig en grej och får en annan grej i retur. Det är ett byte.

   I give you one thing and get another thing in return. That's an exchange.

2. prey

   Vargen tog ett byte

   The wolf caught a prey

   Han var ett lätt byte

   He was an easy prey

3. catch, plunder, loot

   piraternas stora byte

   the pirates' big loot

Unadapted borrowing from English byte.

• IPA^(key): /bajt/, /baɪt/

byte c

1. a byte (8 bits, in computers)

• byte in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)