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Byte - A group of eight adjacent binary digits that are treated as a unit. The basic unit of data storage: one character. A megabyte is 1,024 bytes; a gigabyte is 1,000 megabytes; a terabyte is 1,000 gigabytes.
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Source: Postcom, 15 February 2010 11:29:44, http://postcom.org/public/admail_image/glossary.htm
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byte - [computing] The smallest addressable unit of data storage within a computer, almost always equivalent to 8 bits and containing one character.
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Source: esri, 07 February 2012 09:23:07, http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/GISDictionary/term/abbreviation
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