byte

noun BIYT Rare

Origin: English computing coinage (1950s), adopted unchanged into Spanish.

Usage Note

Byte is an anglicism used identically to English: a unit of digital information consisting of 8 bits. The Real Academia Española also accepts octeto as a Spanish equivalent, but byte dominates in everyday and technical use. Multiples follow standard SI prefixes: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte. The plural is bytes (invariable in pronunciation).

Examples

"El archivo ocupa solo cien bytes de memoria."

Natural Translation

The file takes up only a hundred bytes of memory.

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