JOHN TUKEY Meaning of JOHN TUKEY in English < person > The eminent statistician credited with coining the term " bit " in 1949. http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Tukey.html . (2003-02-28) FOLDOC computer English dictionary. Английский словарь по компьютерам FOLDOC. 2012