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By William Clark

Byte,

Definition of Byte:

  1. Binary digit eight. Represented by capital (upper case) letter B, it is the amount of electronic memory required to store one character (any element of a given character set). See also bit.

Meaning of Byte & Byte Definition

Byte

A set of 8 bits of memory in a computer. Is called. 8 bits is a byte, 1000 bytes is kilobytes (KB) or 8000 bytes, 1000 KB is megabytes (MB) or 8,000,000 bytes, etc.