Byte (noun)

1. A unit of digital information storage consisting of 8 bits.
2. A single character or unit of data in a computer system.

Origin:

Derived from the phrase 'by eight' by j.w. forrester in 1956, referring to the 8-bit size of computer memory.

Examples:

1. A byte is the basic unit of information in a computer.
2. This file is 4 kilobytes in size.
3. A single byte can represent 256 different values.
4. Text characters in a computer are often represented using 1 or more bytes.
5. A byte is the smallest addressable unit of memory in a computer.