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byte

[bahyt] / baɪt /
NOUN
unit of computer memory
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He included the bite mark for scale to set the apple apart from similar round fruit like cherries -- learning only later it was a homonym for the computer term "byte".

From Barron's ● Mar. 29, 2026

He was a darling of business journalists because of his accessibility and willingness to give a quick byte or quote, and his views were much sought after.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2022

The reality, they patiently say, is more nuanced and complicated than a tweet or a talk-radio sound byte.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2021

On Tuesday, Ramsay took to Instagram to share a sound byte from Steve Allen’s recent LBC Radio program in which he fielded a viewer question about her being on "Celebrity Master Chef Australia."

From Fox News ● Oct. 20, 2021

Ever transcribed 141 random bytes, one-half of a byte at a time?

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

It should work a lot like email, in which data composed of bits and bytes exist as a whole in one place, are disassembled, and then electronically transmitted to another place where they are reassembled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

“You would be shocked what he knows about bits and bytes and all the productivity potentially enhancing things of AI in detail,” Druckenmiller said.

From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026

When it ran out of powdered carbon, this chip, which only had 60 bytes of memory, would flip from a program that said I am full to a program that said I’m empty.

From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2025

"Data is a sequence of bits and bytes," explains senior product developer, Alexey Mantsev, as film ran through a spool at his fingertips.

From BBC ● May 8, 2025

Ever transcribed 141 random bytes, one-half of a byte at a time?

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir



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