Byte
noun
A unit of data that usually consists of 8 bits.
A text message is typically 140 bytes in size.
Often appears as...
- megabyte
- gigabyte
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Technical
noun
A small chunk or segment of information or data.
Can you give me a byte of information about the project?
Often appears as...
- information byte
- data byte
noun
A unit of data that usually consists of 8 bits.
A text message is typically 140 bytes in size.
Often appears as...
- megabyte
- gigabyte
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A small chunk or segment of information or data.
Can you give me a byte of information about the project?
Often appears as...
- information byte
- data byte
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Technical Precision
In computing, 'byte' is used for precise data size and storage.
That file is exactly 4,000 bytes.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Interchangeable
'Byte' and 'bit' are different; a byte is 8 times larger than a bit.
High-quality audio is encoded at 320 kbps, but that's kilobits, not kilobytes.
Pro Tip 3/3Storage Units
Bytes are the building blocks for larger units like KB, MB, GB, TB.
My hard drive has a capacity of 1 terabyte.
Pro Tip 1/3Technical Precision
In computing, 'byte' is used for precise data size and storage.
That file is exactly 4,000 bytes.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Interchangeable
'Byte' and 'bit' are different; a byte is 8 times larger than a bit.
High-quality audio is encoded at 320 kbps, but that's kilobits, not kilobytes.
Pro Tip 3/3Storage Units
Bytes are the building blocks for larger units like KB, MB, GB, TB.
My hard drive has a capacity of 1 terabyte.
Pro Tip 1/3Technical Precision
In computing, 'byte' is used for precise data size and storage.
That file is exactly 4,000 bytes.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Interchangeable
'Byte' and 'bit' are different; a byte is 8 times larger than a bit.
High-quality audio is encoded at 320 kbps, but that's kilobits, not kilobytes.
Pro Tip 3/3Storage Units
Bytes are the building blocks for larger units like KB, MB, GB, TB.
My hard drive has a capacity of 1 terabyte.
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Eve Ensler: Security and...
worlds that you can no longer inhabit. And so you spend your days fighting things off, defending your territory and becoming more entrenched in your fundamental thinking. Your days become devoted to protecting yourself. This becomes your mission. That is all you do. Ideas get shorter. They become sound bytes.
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Carl Honore: In praise...
Am I really in such a hurry that I'm prepared to fob off my son with a sound byte at the end of the day?" And I put away the newspaper -- and I was getting on a plane -- and I sat there, and I did something I hadn't done for a long time -- which is I did nothing. I just thought, and I thought long and hard.
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How we can store digital...
Storage is not just about how many bytes but how well we can actually store the data and recover it. There's always been this tension between how much data we can generate and how much we can recover and how much we can store. Every advance in writing data has required a new way to read it.
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Ken Jennings: Watson,...
Watson does not travel. Watson's actually huge. It's thousands of processors, a terabyte of memory, trillions of bytes of memory. We got to walk through his climate-controlled server room. The only other "Jeopardy" contestant to this day I've ever been inside.
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Baby Blue Whale Nursing...
that this population is reproducing and it's an important area for moms to come and raise their young the South Carnegie byte has a fair bit of industrial activity from oil and gas development and there's also vessel traffic through the area though there
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How to spot a liar -...
whatsoever bytes mere utterance its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie so I know it may sound like tough love but look if at some point you got lied to it's because you agreed to get lied to truth number one about line lines a
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How do hard drives work?...
much like a phonograph needle translates a record's grooves into music. But how can you get so much information out of just zeroes and ones? Well, by putting lots of them together. For example, a letter is represented in one byte, or eight bits,
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Wireless data from every...
They are scarce; they are expensive; and we only have a certain range of it. And it's this limitation that doesn't cope with the demand of wireless data transmissions and the number of bytes and data which are transmitted every month.
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Toe-stabbing Spider PIPE...
funnel-web spider perhaps the most dangerous spider in the world without medical intervention she could die within the hour male funnel-web bytes deliver a powerful venom known as a Trachsel toxin
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Shark Attack in the...
well no no really even good-good bytes I have to say it's the longest time I've spent fishing without any results at all
Video examples
Eve Ensler: Security and...
worlds that you can no longer inhabit. And so you spend your days fighting things off, defending your territory and becoming more entrenched in your fundamental thinking. Your days become devoted to protecting yourself. This becomes your mission. That is all you do. Ideas get shorter. They become sound bytes.
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Carl Honore: In praise...
Am I really in such a hurry that I'm prepared to fob off my son with a sound byte at the end of the day?" And I put away the newspaper -- and I was getting on a plane -- and I sat there, and I did something I hadn't done for a long time -- which is I did nothing. I just thought, and I thought long and hard.
Video examples
How we can store digital...
Storage is not just about how many bytes but how well we can actually store the data and recover it. There's always been this tension between how much data we can generate and how much we can recover and how much we can store. Every advance in writing data has required a new way to read it.
Video examples
Ken Jennings: Watson,...
Watson does not travel. Watson's actually huge. It's thousands of processors, a terabyte of memory, trillions of bytes of memory. We got to walk through his climate-controlled server room. The only other "Jeopardy" contestant to this day I've ever been inside.
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Baby Blue Whale Nursing...
that this population is reproducing and it's an important area for moms to come and raise their young the South Carnegie byte has a fair bit of industrial activity from oil and gas development and there's also vessel traffic through the area though there
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How to spot a liar -...
whatsoever bytes mere utterance its power emerges when someone else agrees to believe the lie so I know it may sound like tough love but look if at some point you got lied to it's because you agreed to get lied to truth number one about line lines a
Video examples
How do hard drives work?...
much like a phonograph needle translates a record's grooves into music. But how can you get so much information out of just zeroes and ones? Well, by putting lots of them together. For example, a letter is represented in one byte, or eight bits,
Video examples
Wireless data from every...
They are scarce; they are expensive; and we only have a certain range of it. And it's this limitation that doesn't cope with the demand of wireless data transmissions and the number of bytes and data which are transmitted every month.
Video examples
Toe-stabbing Spider PIPE...
funnel-web spider perhaps the most dangerous spider in the world without medical intervention she could die within the hour male funnel-web bytes deliver a powerful venom known as a Trachsel toxin
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Shark Attack in the...
well no no really even good-good bytes I have to say it's the longest time I've spent fishing without any results at all
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James Daly
American Actor
I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture.
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Michael Morhaime
American Businessman
Starcraft' was never designed to support multi-byte languages. In order to support more complicated languages like Korean or Chinese, you need two bytes of storage and 'Starcraft' only had one byte.
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Todd Young
American Politician
Intelligence work in the Marine Corps proved to me the strategic value in establishing a Central Command to act as a clearinghouse for disparate bits and floating bytes of information.
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Jay Samit
American Businessman
The Industrial Revolution was about making physical things. Many of the manufactured goods that were once tangible objects have now been reduced to bits and bytes of data.
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James Daly
American Actor
I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture.
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Michael Morhaime
American Businessman
Starcraft' was never designed to support multi-byte languages. In order to support more complicated languages like Korean or Chinese, you need two bytes of storage and 'Starcraft' only had one byte.
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Todd Young
American Politician
Intelligence work in the Marine Corps proved to me the strategic value in establishing a Central Command to act as a clearinghouse for disparate bits and floating bytes of information.
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Jay Samit
American Businessman
The Industrial Revolution was about making physical things. Many of the manufactured goods that were once tangible objects have now been reduced to bits and bytes of data.
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