Phrase Hound found 13 phrases and 40 compound words that contain byte. The most common are listed below. Open byte in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 13
- byte orderOrder in which bytes are written or read, in memory or through a transmission; choices being big-endian or little-endian.
- sound byteMisspelling of sound bite: An extract from a speech or interview used as edited into a news or other broadcast; an interview clip, especially seen as particularly expressive or pithy.
- byte order markA character indicating the endianness of a string of text.
- byte codeAlternative spelling of bytecode: P-code (various forms of instruction sets designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter as well as being suitable for further compilation into machine code).
- byte bucketSynonym of bit bucket (“an imaginary domain that accepts lost, discarded, or useless digital data”)
- byte pair encodingA lossless data compression algorithm that iteratively replaces the most frequent pair of adjacent bytes in a sequence with a new byte not already present in the data.
- least significant byteThe byte of a multibyte number with the least importance: that is, the byte stored last on a big-endian system or first on a little-endian system.
- most significant byteThe byte of a multibyte number with the greatest importance: that is, the byte stored first on a big-endian system or last on a little-endian system.
- byte codesplural of byte code: P-code (various forms of instruction sets designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter as well as being suitable for further compilation into machine code).
- multi-byteAlternative spelling of multibyte: Contained in more than one byte.
- byte order marksplural of byte order mark: A character indicating the endianness of a string of text.
- byte bucketsplural of byte bucket: Synonym of bit bucket (“an imaginary domain that accepts lost, discarded, or useless digital data”)
- byte pair encodingsplural of byte pair encoding: A lossless data compression algorithm that iteratively replaces the most frequent pair of adjacent bytes in a sequence with a new byte not already present in the data.
Compound words 40
- bytecodeP-code (various forms of instruction sets designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter as well as being suitable for further compilation into machine code).
- kilobyteOne thousand (10³, or 1,000) bytes.
- gibibyteStrictly, 2³⁰ (1024³, or 1,073,741,824) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) mebibytes, as opposed to a gigabyte.
- kibibyteStrictly, 2¹⁰ (1,024) bytes, as opposed to a kilobyte.
- mebibyteStrictly, 2²⁰ (1024², or 1,048,576) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) kibibytes, as opposed to a megabyte.
- tebibyteStrictly, 2⁴⁰ (1024⁴, or 1,099,511,627,776) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) gibibytes, as opposed to a terabyte (10¹² bytes).
- exbibyteStrictly, 2⁶⁰ (1024⁶, 1,152,921,504,606,846,976) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) pebibytes, as opposed to an exabyte.
- pebibyteStrictly, 2⁵⁰ (1024⁵, 1,125,899,906,842,624) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) tebibytes, as opposed to a petabyte.
- yobibyteStrictly, 2⁸⁰ (1024⁸, 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) zebibytes, as opposed to a yottabyte.
- zebibyteStrictly, 2⁷⁰ (1024⁷, 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) exbibytes, as opposed to a zettabyte.