byte 
(bīt)
(bīt)n.
1. A unit of data equal to eight bits. Computer memory is often expressed in megabytes or gigabytes.
2. A set of bits constituting the smallest unit of addressable memory in a given computer, typically eight bits.
[Alteration and blend of BIT3 and BITE.]
- secondary school
- secondary sex characteristic
- secondary stress
- secondary structure
- secondary succession
- secondary syphilis
- secondary tissue
- second banana
- second base
- second baseman
- second best
- second-best
- second blessing
- second childhood
- second class
- second-class
- second class
- Second Coming
- second cousin
- second-degree burn
- Second Empire
- second fiddle
- second-generation
- second growth
- second-guess