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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

And that a byte of data on a mobile increases the phone’s mass by one quectogram?

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 18, 2022

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

The atom, the byte, and the gene provide fundamentally new scientific and technological understandings of their respective systems.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

What is DNA if not bits and bytes of human beings?

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

The whole house of digital bits and bytes will come crashing down.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2025

If you can contact it, I can draw hex numbers on the wheels and you can send me six bytes at a time.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir


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