How to Use byte in a Sentence

byte

noun

• The 16-bit address in the long jump uses an extra byte.
  — Andrew Hudson, Ars Technica, 14 Mar. 2022
• The torrent of bits and bytes pours into laptops and phones held in the hands of billions.
  — Mike Oliver | [e-mail], al, 17 Aug. 2019
• Still, I was plagued by a virus, by a byte of uncertainty.
  — Kira Jane Buxton, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2017
• Groups of bits are formed into larger units called bytes.
  — Jay Weitzen, The Conversation, 5 Dec. 2022
• At its core, compression is about reducing the number of bits and bytes in a file.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2020
• Alice thinks that Bob does not support 16 bytes of entropy and accepts 1 byte.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2019
• This address is prepended to any block of data bytes being sent.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Mar. 2023
• And now the conversation from a business standpoint is, does this work in 15-second bytes?
  — Alessandro Corona, The Enquirer, 14 June 2023
• Such a weapon could pose a major danger to U.S. satellites that transmit billions of bytes of data each hour.
  — Matthew Lee, arkansasonline.com, 15 Feb. 2024
• The service is agnostic about what is being stored and handles all file content the same way, as a collection of bytes.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 26 Feb. 2018
• The table lookup and LFSR step are performed for each byte of data in the sector, and the result is output as the original video data.
  — Victor C. Clarke, WIRED, 1 June 2001
• But a different sort of conflict, waged with bytes rather than bullets, is already being fought here.
  — Gardiner Harris, New York Times, 10 May 2017
• The bulk of innovation has been shunted into the invisible realm of bytes and code.
  — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2019
• The company's name refers to 0s and 1s dancing together to form a byte, the binary code used by computers.
  — Sherisse Pham, CNN, 21 May 2020
• Even the simplest storage provider has code to copy bytes from an internal storage system and deliver them to the user.
  — Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023
• As James surely understands, opening a vacuum can say far more than a sound byte.
  — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• There wasn't much data to crunch: only about six hundred bytes total, equivalent to a few text messages.
  — Bucky McMahon, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2015
• If there is to be value in wine NFTs beyond authentication, someone needs to come up with an idea more compelling than a byte-sized bit of art.
  — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2022
• This is a legacy of Windows XP, which would cough up a hairball when presented with a disk with any hardware blocksize other than 512 byte.
  — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2020
• The 8-bit byte enabled a computer to run software that produced both upper- and lower-case characters.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 9 Dec. 2022
• As such, bringing it to the handheld requires a little more work than just translation of the bits and bytes into something the Game Boy can understand, which would be tough enough on its own.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 19 Dec. 2016
• Sometimes, those discrepancies come down to a single byte.
  — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2020
• Considering your average video can have as many as 60 frames per second, this can save a truly bonkers number of bytes.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2016
• The RobbinHood exploit changed a single byte to disable the Windows requirement that drivers be signed.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 7 Feb. 2020
• In hip-hop, especially, an album is now a data set — bytes first, music second.
  — New York Times, 9 May 2018
• Smaller transactions had to bid higher to compete with large transactions in terms of cost per virtual byte.
  — Liam Wright, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• That makes sense, given the way their generation exists online, interfacing with a constant stream of bits and bytes.
  — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2016
• Two bytes is fairly short, which means this shouldn’t leak much information, since many different addresses will collide on a two-byte hash.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 12 Jan. 2024
• If the mneme can be thought of as Semon’s conception of a biological hard drive, the engram is the byte (or, in that baby’s case, bite) of information written onto it.
  — Dan Hurley, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2012
• If a cloud provider of a decoupled videoconferencing service is breached, all that’s visible is the flow of encrypted bytes to and from other nameless cloud servers.
  — Barath Raghavan, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 23 Sep 2024