byte

byte — 名詞

1. the smallest chunk of data that a computer normally handles as one piece, made u

1.名詞B2
釋義

位元組

電腦資料的基本單位，通常為八個位元

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.

例句

A plain text file with the word 'hello' takes only five bytes.

一個只寫了「hello」的純文字檔，只佔五個位元組。

[number] bytes of storage measurement

Marcus checked the file size and saw the photo was nearly four million bytes.

Marcus 檢查檔案大小時，發現這張照片將近四百萬位元組。

byte as a countable measure of file size

同義詞
  • 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.

常見錯誤

❌My phone has 64 byte of memory.
✅My phone has 64 gigabytes of memory.
💡bare 'bytes' is far too small for device storage; use a prefix like giga- or tera-.
❌Each letter is one bytes.
✅Each letter is one byte.
💡use the singular 'byte' after 'one'.