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[Date: 1900-2000; Origin: Invented word based on BIT25 and bite]
a unit for measuring computer information, equal to eight bits (=the smallest unit on which information is stored on a computer)
::Each character requires one byte of storage space.
-see also gigabyte , kilobyte , megabyte , terabyte