bytes

n. basic data unit comprised of 8 bits (Computers)

In computer science a byte (pronounced ) is a unit of measurement of information storage, most often consisting of eight bits. In many computer architectures it is a unit of memory addressing.Originally, a byte was a small group of bits of a size convenient for data such as a single character from a Western character set. Its size was generally determined by the number of possible characters in the supported character set and was chosen to be a submultiple of the computer's word size; historically, bytes have ranged from five to twelve bits. The popularity of IBM's System/360 architecture starting in the 1960s and the explosion of microcomputers based on 8-bit microprocessors in the 1980s has made eight bits by far the most common size for a byte. The term octet is widely used as a more precise synonym where ambiguity is undesirable (for example, in protocol definitions).
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Byte magazine was an influential microcomputer magazine in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage. Whereas many magazines from the mid-1980s had been dedicated to the Wintel platform or the Mac, mostly from a business user's perspective, Byte covered developments in the entire field of "small computers and software", and sometimes included in-depth features on other computing fields as well, such as supercomputers and high-reliability computing.
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Noun
1. a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information
(hypernym) computer memory unit
(part-holonym) word
(part-meronym) bit

n. byte, unit of basic information which contains 8 bits (Computers)

n. byte, basic data unit comprised of 8 bits (Computers)