byte
byte — noun
1. the smallest chunk of data that a computer normally handles as one piece, made u
the smallest chunk of data that a computer normally handles as one piece, made up of eight smaller signals called bits, and roughly enough space to store a single letter, digit, or symbol.
A plain text file with the word 'hello' takes only five bytes.
[number] bytes of storage measurement
Marcus checked the file size and saw the photo was nearly four million bytes.
byte as a countable measure of file size
A short text message from Maya was only about 160 bytes long.
The old library computer could only hold a few thousand bytes of text.
Each photo on Lina's phone is several million bytes in size.
- octet
more technical term, mainly used in networking standards to stress exactly eight bits
文法句型
a [number] byte file
[number] bytes of [storage]
用法筆記
Often appears with prefixes like kilo-, mega-, giga-, and tera- (kilobyte, megabyte, etc.) to describe larger amounts. The plural 'bytes' is standard when counting; the singular is rare outside technical descriptions of structure.