Term: bit: a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states
Candidate hypernym: unit of measurement: any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange → 1
Candidate hypernym: horst: a ridge of the earth's crust that has been forced upward between two faults and so is higher than the surrounding land → 0
Candidate hypernym: rattan: climbing palm of Sri Lanka and southern India remarkable for the great length of the stems which are used for malacca canes → 0
Candidate hypernym: grader: a judge who assigns grades to something → 0
Candidate hypernym: macrencephaly: an abnormally large braincase → 0
Candidate hypernym: caecilian: any of the small slender limbless burrowing wormlike amphibians of the order Gymnophiona; inhabit moist soil in tropical regions → 0
Candidate hypernym: relative pronoun: a pronoun (as `that' or `which' or `who') that introduces a relative clause referring to some antecedent → 0
Candidate hypernym: royal society: an honorary English society (formalized in 1660 and given a royal charter by Charles II in 1662) through which the British government has supported science → 0
Candidate hypernym: gaff topsail: a triangular fore-and-aft sail with its foot along the gaff and its luff on the topmast → 0
Candidate hypernym: midsummer day: a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland → 0
Candidate hypernym: north-south direction: in a direction parallel with lines of longitude → 0