noun Etymology: perhaps alteration of 2bite Date: 1962 a unit of computer information or data-storage capacity that consists of a group of eight bits and that is used especially to represent an alphanumeric character
BYTE
Meaning of BYTE in English
Merriam Webster. Explanatory English dictionary Merriam Webster. Толковый словарь английского языка Мерриам-Уэбстер. 2012