noun
byte
a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information
In a sentence
Six example sentences with byte, each labelled with its topic.
One letter of plain text costs a single byte, so a thousand-word note fits in six kilobytes.
Technology
Early cartridges gave designers so little room that a single spare byte could decide whether a level shipped.
Gaming
Each raw frame is worth about twenty million bytes, which is why her card fills before the afternoon light does.
Photography
A human genome fits in about seven hundred million bytes, less than a feature film in high definition.
Science
A compact disc stores each stereo sample as four bytes, which is why seventy minutes fills the disc.
Music
A whole novel is roughly half a million bytes of plain text, smaller than one photograph from a phone.
Literature
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