byte
/baɪt/
noun
- A unit of digital information equal to 8 bits, used to store a single character of text.
- A typical email might be only a few thousand bytes in size.
- The file size is 2 kilobytes, which is about 2,000 bytes.
- Each character in this document takes up one byte of memory.
- A group of binary digits processed as a unit, often used to measure computer storage or data transfer.
- She downloaded a program that was several million bytes in size.
- The internet speed is measured in megabytes per second.
- This hard drive can store one terabyte, or one trillion bytes, of data.