Plural form of byte

A unit of data equal to eight bits Computer memory is often expressed in megabytes or gigabytes, a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information

A conversion of plain text into a code or cypher form (for decoding by the recipient), the activity of converting data or information into code, computing The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, eg in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into visual text, verb_ Present participle of encode