Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word BIT
BIT
Definitions of BIT
- A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
- A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
- A small amount of something.
- A portion of something.
- Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
- An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
- The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
- The cutting iron of a plane.
- The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
- A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
- (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
- (in the plural, informal, sports) Fractions of a second.
- (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
- Short for bit part.
- (BDSM) A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
- (MLE) A gun.
- (transitive) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
- inflection of bite
- (informalinUS, archaicinUK) inflection of bite, bitten
- (mostly, in combination) Having been bitten.
- (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
- (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
- (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
- (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
- (slang) A gag or put-on; a humorous conceit, especially when insistently presented as true.
- Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.
- (informal) A small fraction above a whole number.
- An Austroasiatic language spoken in China and Laos.
Number of letters
3
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using BIT in a Sentence
- The bit layout of the audio data (excluding metadata) is called the audio coding format and can be uncompressed, or compressed to reduce the file size, often using lossy compression.
- This bit of legend suggests an origin or at least an existence in the Bronze Age, and sites protohistory supports a continued existence in Iron-Age antiquity.
- The most significant aspect of asynchronous communications is that data is not transmitted at regular intervals, thus making possible variable bit rate, and that the transmitter and receiver clock generators do not have to be exactly synchronized all the time.
- They are most often used in information technology as multipliers of bit and byte, when expressing the capacity of storage devices or the size of computer files.
- The number of sectors per track varies from 17 to 21 (an early implementation of zone bit recording with 4 constant angular velocity zones).
- Main memory operates at a high speed compared to mass storage which is slower but less expensive per bit and higher in capacity.
- Ethernet has since been refined to support higher bit rates, a greater number of nodes, and longer link distances, but retains much backward compatibility.
- Most of the new instructions were added to support the additional registers, as well as up to 32-bit math, hardware division, bit manipulations, and block transfers.
- While the bit patterns of the 95 printable ASCII characters are sufficient to exchange information in modern English, most other languages that use Latin alphabets need additional symbols not covered by ASCII.
- It was designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent audio, yet still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio to most listeners; for example, compared to CD-quality digital audio, MP3 compression can commonly achieve a 75–95% reduction in size, depending on the bit rate.
- The book is centered on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage.
- In contrast to that, integer multiplications and bit shifting instructions are significantly faster on the 68060.
- It supports recursion, structured programming, linked data structure handling, fixed-point, floating-point, complex, character string handling, and bit string handling.
- To quantitatively measure quality of service, several related aspects of the network service are often considered, such as packet loss, bit rate, throughput, transmission delay, availability, jitter, etc.
- It conveys two analog message signals, or two digital bit streams, by changing (modulating) the amplitudes of two carrier waves, using the amplitude-shift keying (ASK) digital modulation scheme or amplitude modulation (AM) analog modulation scheme.
- The nodes in a red-black tree hold an extra "color" bit, often drawn as red and black, which help ensure that the tree is always approximately balanced.
- As well as the 8080's seven registers and flags register, the Z80 had an alternate register set that duplicated them, two 16-bit index registers and additional instructions including bit manipulation and block copy/search.
- The figure of 56 kbit/s is derived from its implementation using the same digital infrastructure used since the 1960s for digital telephony in the public switched telephone network, which uses a sampling rate of 8,000 Hz for PCM audio with 8-bit audio bit depth to encode analogue signals into a digital stream of 64,000 bit/s.
- Synchronous Optical Networking (SONET) and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) are standardized protocols that transfer multiple digital bit streams synchronously over optical fiber using lasers or highly coherent light from light-emitting diodes (LEDs).
- One can interpret this measurement as a computation on 1 bit for this system; however, Bremermann's limit is difficult to interpret physically, since there exist quantum Hamiltonians for which this interpretation would give arbitrarily fast computation speeds at arbitrarily low energy.
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