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Pronunciation / Transliteration: Byte
"Die Datei ist nur wenige Kilobyte groß."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
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A group of binary digits (usually eight) operated on as a unit by a computer.
"This file is only a few kilobytes in size."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Coined in 1956 by Werner Buchholz at IBM during the early design phase for the IBM 7030 Stretch computer. It was devised as a deliberate respelling of the word 'bite' to avoid accidental confusion with 'bit', while also being a portmanteau related to binary terms.
Which of the following is the closest synonym for "Byte"?
10 Global Lexicons: How "Byte" is said worldwide
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octet
Transliteration: octet
"Ce fichier pèse plusieurs mégaoctets."
Byte
Transliteration: Byte
"Die Datei ist nur wenige Kilobyte groß."
byte
Transliteration: byte
"Questo file è grande pochi kilobyte."
byte
Transliteration: byte
"El archivo ocupa varios megabytes."
byte
Transliteration: byte
"Este arquivo tem o tamanho de alguns kilobytes."
बाइट
Transliteration: baayt
"यह फ़ाइल कुछ किलोबाइट की है।"
字节
Transliteration: zìjié
"这个文件只有几千字节大小。"
바이트
Transliteration: baiteu
"이 파일은 몇 킬로바이트 크기입니다."
バイト
Transliteration: baito
"このファイルはわずか数キロバイトの大きさです。"
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