bits
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/bɪts/
English
Definitions
noun
- A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.“A horse hates having a bit put in its mouth.”
- A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
- A coin of a specified value.“a threepenny bit”
- A ten-cent piece, dime.
noun
- A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
- The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
- Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.“permission bits in a file system”
- A unit of measure for information entropy.