byte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: An alteration of the word bite so it would not be accidentally misspelled as bit. Coined by Werner Buchholz in 1956, during the early design phase for the IBM 7030 Stretch computer.
Inflected forms:
form: bytes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A short sequence of bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word.
pos: noun
gloss: A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits, which can represent any of 256 distinct values.
pos: noun
examples: The word “hello” fits into five bytes of ASCII code.
If you look at the photograph of the interior of the Spectrum[…], you will see that there is one ROM chip, and 16 smaller RAM chips. These chips give the Spectrum its memory. The memory consists of 65536 storage units that each contain one byte (a number from 0 to 255).
With a varchar, the storage is always the actual number of characters you have stored plus 2 bytes. So a varchar(20) with a 5-character word will take up 7 bytes, with the extra 2 bytes holding a size reference for SQL Server.
Related words: word
doubleword
longword
char
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: greep
lang: Arabic
word: بَايْت
roman: bāyt
lang: Armenian
word: բայտ
roman: bayt
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bayt
lang: Belarusian
word: байт
roman: bajt
lang: Bengali
word: বাইট
roman: baiṭ
lang: Breton
word: eizhbit
lang: Bulgarian
word: байт
roman: bajt
lang: Burmese
word: ဘိုက်
roman: bhuik
lang: Catalan
word: byte
lang: Catalan
word: octet
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 字節 /字节
roman: zi⁶ zit³
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 位元組 /位元组
roman: wai⁶ jyun⁴ zou²
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 字節 /字节
roman: zìjié
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 位元組 /位元组
roman: wèiyuánzǔ
lang: Czech
word: bajt
lang: Czech
word: byte
lang: Esperanto
word: bajto
lang: Esperanto
word: bitoko
lang: Esperanto
word: okopo
lang: Estonian
word: bait
lang: Finnish
word: tavu
lang: French
word: octet
lang: Galician
word: byte
lang: Georgian
word: ბაიტი
roman: baiṭi
lang: German
word: Byte
lang: Greek
word: μπάιτ
roman: báit
lang: Greek
word: δυφιοσυλλαβή
roman: dyfiosyllaví
lang: Greek
word: δυφιοοκτάδα
roman: dyfiooktáda
lang: Hebrew
word: בַּיִת
roman: báyit
lang: Hindi
word: बाइट
roman: bāiṭ
lang: Hungarian
word: byte
lang: Icelandic
word: bæti
lang: Icelandic
word: tölvustafur
lang: Ido
word: bicoko
lang: Indonesian
word: bita
lang: Interlingua
word: byte
lang: Italian
word: byte
lang: Italian
word: bicarattere
lang: Italian
word: ottetto
lang: Italian
word: multipletto
lang: Japanese
word: バイト
roman: baito
lang: Kazakh
word: байт
roman: bait
lang: Khmer
word: បៃ
roman: bai
lang: Korean
word: 바이트
roman: baiteu
lang: Kyrgyz
word: байт
roman: bayt
lang: Lao
word: ໄບຕ໌
roman: bait
lang: Lao
word: ໄບ
roman: bai
lang: Latin
word: octetus
lang: Latvian
word: baits
lang: Lithuanian
word: baitas
lang: Lü
word: ᦢᦺ
roman: ḃay
lang: Macedonian
word: бајт
roman: bajt
lang: Malay
word: bait
lang: Māori
word: paita
lang: Navajo
word: łaʼííłké
lang: Persian
word: بایت
roman: bâyt
lang: Polish
word: bajt
lang: Portuguese
word: byte
lang: Portuguese
word: baite
lang: Romanian
word: byte
lang: Romanian
word: octet
lang: Russian
word: байт
roman: bajt
lang: Russian
word: окте́т
roman: oktét
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: бајт
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: bajt
lang: Sinhalese
word: බයිට
roman: bayiṭa
lang: Slovak
word: bajt
lang: Slovak
word: byte
lang: Spanish
word: byte
lang: Spanish
word: octeto
lang: Swahili
word: baiti
lang: Swedish
word: byte
lang: Tajik
word: байт
roman: bayt
lang: Thai
word: ไบต์
roman: bái
lang: Northern Thai
word: ᨷᩱ
lang: Tibetan
word: ཡིག་ཚིགས
roman: yig tshigs
lang: Turkish
word: bayt
lang: Ukrainian
word: байт
roman: bajt
lang: Urdu
word: لکمہ
lang: Uyghur
word: بايت
roman: bayt
lang: Uzbek
word: bayt
lang: Vietnamese
word: byte
lang: Vietnamese
word: bai
lang: Vietnamese
word: bai-tơ
lang: Welsh
word: beit
lang: Yiddish
word: בײַט
roman: bayt
lang: Zulu
word: isimumathalwazi