noun
- a unit of computer memory or data equal to eight bits
Usage: computing
Examples
- The file is 2.5 megabytes in size.
- Each byte can store one character of text.
- The computer has 16 gigabytes of memory.
- This image takes up several thousand bytes of storage.
- A kilobyte contains 1,024 bytes.
- The program uses only a few bytes of code.