octet
/ɑkˈtɛt/
noun
- A group of eight people or things.
- An octet of planets orbits the distant star.
- The committee formed an octet to study the problem.
- The octet of musicians played a beautiful symphony.
- A musical composition for eight voices or instruments.
- Mendelssohn wrote a famous octet for strings.
- She composed an octet for woodwinds and brass.
- The choir performed an octet at the concert.
- A set of eight bits in computing, also called a byte.
- The network protocol transmits data in octets.
- Each character in the file is stored as one octet.
- An octet can represent 256 different values.
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