Bight vs Byte - What's the difference?
bight | byte |
A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
*1905 ,
An area of sea lying between two promontories; larger than a bay, wider than a gulf
A curve in a rope
*1899 ,
(computing) A sequence of adjacent bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word; nearly always eight bits, which can represent an integer from 0 to 255 or a single character of text.
(computing) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits
As nouns the difference between bight and byte
is that bight is a corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow while byte is a byte, small binary data unit.bight
English
Noun
(en noun)- I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river.
- I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking.
See also
*byte
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia byte)- The word “hello” fits into five bytes of ASCII code.