BITS
/bɪts/
6
Scrabble
7
WWF
B(3) I(1) T(1) S(1)
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Definition
/bɪts/
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.
- A unit of currency or coin in the Americas worth a fraction of a Spanish dollar; now specifically, an eighth of a US dollar.“A quarter is two bits.”
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.
- A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
Source: Wiktionary
