byte
byte
(bIt') n.
1. a quantity of information equal to 8 bits.
2. a unit of information consisting of or containing 8 bits.
3. an 8-bit value considered as a whole number between 0 and 255.
Abbr. B.
BYTE (SAS word)
Function.
byte order mark
n.
1. a code value to indicate that subsequent text data is big-endian or little-endian.
2. in Unicode, the use of the zero width no break space character U+FEFF at the beginning of a text sequence to signal the byte sequence. The reversed code sequence U+FFFE is not a character code in Unicode, so a program that encounters this code knows to reverse the byte order.
byte stream
(bIt' strEm') n.
data organized as a sequence of bytes.