Byte
nounid
1744·updated May 12, 2026candidate
A fundamental unit of computer storage; the smallest addressable unit in a computer's architecture. Usually holds one character of information and usually means eight bits.
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Entity Type
Data0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Information Class
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Variants
- plural
- Bytes
- possessive
- Byte's
- pluralpossessive
- Bytes'
Framework definitions
- §1
- A fundamental unit of computer storage; the smallest addressable unit in a computer's architecture. Usually holds one character of information and usually means eight bits.
- §1
- a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information
- §1 · legacy_primary
- A fundamental unit of computer storage; the smallest addressable unit in a computer's architecture. Usually holds one character of information and usually means eight bits.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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