Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Install
Faster access than browser!
 

Bit

Index Bit

The bit (a portmanteau of binary digit) is a basic unit of information used in computing and digital communications. [1]

132 relations: A Mathematical Theory of Communication, Addison-Wesley, Address space, Alphanumeric, Analytical Engine, Barcode, Basile Bouchon, Baud, Binary number, Bit blit, Bit numbering, Bit-length, Biting, Bitmap, Bitstream, Bitwise operation, Bubble memory, Byte, Byte (magazine), Capacitor, Cathode ray tube, Central processing unit, Character (computing), Charles Babbage, Classical mechanics, Claude Shannon, Communication, Communications of the ACM, Computer, Computer architecture, Computer hardware, Computer program, Computing, Credit card, Data storage, Delay line memory, Disk storage, DNA, Drum memory, Dynamic random-access memory, E (mathematical constant), Electric charge, Electric current, Electrical network, Electrical polarity, Electricity, Elevator, Entropy (information theory), Exabyte, Ferromagnetism, ..., Flip-flop (electronics), Fred Brooks, Gerrit Blaauw, Hartley (unit), Herman Hollerith, IBM, IBM 7030 Stretch, IBM System/360, IEC 60027, IEEE 1541-2002, IEEE Std 260.1-2004, IEEE Transactions on Computers, Information, Information theory, Integer (computer science), International Electrotechnical Commission, International System of Units, Irradiance, ISO/IEC 80000, John Tukey, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Kilo-, Kilobit, Konrad Zuse, Logarithm, Logic level, Lossless compression, Magnetic core, Magnetic storage, Magnetic stripe card, Magnetic tape, Magnetic-core memory, Magnetism, McGraw-Hill Education, Morse code, Nat (unit), Natural logarithm, Numerical digit, Octet (computing), Optical disc, Parallel communication, Photolithography, Portmanteau, Primitive data type, Programmable logic array, Punched card, Punched tape, Quantum computing, Quantum mechanics, Quantum superposition, Qubit, Ralph Hartley, Rapid transit, Read-only memory, Relay, S&P Global, Science (journal), Semiconductor memory, Semyon Korsakov, Serial binary adder, Serial communication, Shannon (unit), Sign (mathematics), State (computer science), Switch, Telephone exchange, Teletype Corporation, Ternary numeral system, Ticker tape, Traffic light, Transistor–transistor logic, Truth value, Units of information, UTF-8, Vacuum tube, Value (computer science), Vannevar Bush, Voltage, Werner Buchholz, Word (computer architecture), Yotta-, Yottabit. Expand index (82 more) »

A Mathematical Theory of Communication

"A Mathematical Theory of Communication" is an article by mathematician Claude E. Shannon published in Bell System Technical Journal in 1948.

New!!: Bit and A Mathematical Theory of Communication · See more »

Addison-Wesley

Addison-Wesley is a publisher of textbooks and computer literature.

New!!: Bit and Addison-Wesley · See more »

Address space

In computing, an address space defines a range of discrete addresses, each of which may correspond to a network host, peripheral device, disk sector, a memory cell or other logical or physical entity.

New!!: Bit and Address space · See more »

Alphanumeric

Alphanumeric is a combination of alphabetic and numeric characters, and is used to describe the collection of Latin letters and Arabic digits or a text constructed from this collection.

New!!: Bit and Alphanumeric · See more »

Analytical Engine

The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage.

New!!: Bit and Analytical Engine · See more »

Barcode

A barcode (also bar code) is an optical, machine-readable, representation of data; the data usually describes something about the object that carries the barcode.

New!!: Bit and Barcode · See more »

Basile Bouchon

Basile Bouchon was a textile worker in the silk center in Lyon who invented a way to control a loom with a perforated paper tape in 1725.

New!!: Bit and Basile Bouchon · See more »

Baud

In telecommunication and electronics, baud (symbol: Bd) is a common measure of the speed of communication over a data channel.

New!!: Bit and Baud · See more »

Binary number

In mathematics and digital electronics, a binary number is a number expressed in the base-2 numeral system or binary numeral system, which uses only two symbols: typically 0 (zero) and 1 (one).

New!!: Bit and Binary number · See more »

Bit blit

Bit blit (also written BITBLT, BIT BLT, BitBLT, Bit BLT, Bit Blt etc., which stands for bit block transfer) is a data operation commonly used in computer graphics in which several bitmaps are combined into one using a boolean function.

New!!: Bit and Bit blit · See more »

Bit numbering

In computing, bit numbering (or sometimes bit endianness) is the convention used to identify the bit positions in a binary number or a container for such a value.

New!!: Bit and Bit numbering · See more »

Bit-length

Bit-length is the number of binary digits, called bits, necessary to represent an integer in the binary number system.

New!!: Bit and Bit-length · See more »

Biting

Biting is a common behaviour which involves the opening and closing of the jaw found in many animals.

New!!: Bit and Biting · See more »

Bitmap

In computing, a bitmap is a mapping from some domain (for example, a range of integers) to bits.

New!!: Bit and Bitmap · See more »

Bitstream

A bitstream (or bit stream), also known as binary sequence, is a sequence of bits.

New!!: Bit and Bitstream · See more »

Bitwise operation

In digital computer programming, a bitwise operation operates on one or more bit patterns or binary numerals at the level of their individual bits.

New!!: Bit and Bitwise operation · See more »

Bubble memory

Bubble memory is a type of non-volatile computer memory that uses a thin film of a magnetic material to hold small magnetized areas, known as bubbles or domains, each storing one bit of data.

New!!: Bit and Bubble memory · See more »

Byte

The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits, representing a binary number.

New!!: Bit and Byte · See more »

Byte (magazine)

Byte was an American microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage.

New!!: Bit and Byte (magazine) · See more »

Capacitor

A capacitor is a passive two-terminal electrical component that stores potential energy in an electric field.

New!!: Bit and Capacitor · See more »

Cathode ray tube

The cathode ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube that contains one or more electron guns and a phosphorescent screen, and is used to display images.

New!!: Bit and Cathode ray tube · See more »

Central processing unit

A central processing unit (CPU) is the electronic circuitry within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program by performing the basic arithmetic, logical, control and input/output (I/O) operations specified by the instructions.

New!!: Bit and Central processing unit · See more »

Character (computing)

In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language.

New!!: Bit and Character (computing) · See more »

Charles Babbage

Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath.

New!!: Bit and Charles Babbage · See more »

Classical mechanics

Classical mechanics describes the motion of macroscopic objects, from projectiles to parts of machinery, and astronomical objects, such as spacecraft, planets, stars and galaxies.

New!!: Bit and Classical mechanics · See more »

Claude Shannon

Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as "the father of information theory".

New!!: Bit and Claude Shannon · See more »

Communication

Communication (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning "to share") is the act of conveying intended meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs and semiotic rules.

New!!: Bit and Communication · See more »

Communications of the ACM

Communications of the ACM is the monthly journal of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

New!!: Bit and Communications of the ACM · See more »

Computer

A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming.

New!!: Bit and Computer · See more »

Computer architecture

In computer engineering, computer architecture is a set of rules and methods that describe the functionality, organization, and implementation of computer systems.

New!!: Bit and Computer architecture · See more »

Computer hardware

Computer hardware includes the physical parts or components of a computer, such as the central processing unit, monitor, keyboard, computer data storage, graphic card, sound card and motherboard.

New!!: Bit and Computer hardware · See more »

Computer program

A computer program is a collection of instructions for performing a specific task that is designed to solve a specific class of problems.

New!!: Bit and Computer program · See more »

Computing

Computing is any goal-oriented activity requiring, benefiting from, or creating computers.

New!!: Bit and Computing · See more »

Credit card

A credit card is a payment card issued to users (cardholders) to enable the cardholder to pay a merchant for goods and services based on the cardholder's promise to the card issuer to pay them for the amounts so paid plus the other agreed charges.

New!!: Bit and Credit card · See more »

Data storage

Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium.

New!!: Bit and Data storage · See more »

Delay line memory

Delay line memory is a form of computer memory, now obsolete, that was used on some of the earliest digital computers.

New!!: Bit and Delay line memory · See more »

Disk storage

Disk storage (also sometimes called drive storage) is a general category of storage mechanisms where data is recorded by various electronic, magnetic, optical, or mechanical changes to a surface layer of one or more rotating disks.

New!!: Bit and Disk storage · See more »

DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a thread-like chain of nucleotides carrying the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses.

New!!: Bit and DNA · See more »

Drum memory

Drum memory was a magnetic data storage device invented by Gustav Tauschek in 1932 in Austria.

New!!: Bit and Drum memory · See more »

Dynamic random-access memory

Dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) is a type of random access semiconductor memory that stores each bit of data in a separate tiny capacitor within an integrated circuit.

New!!: Bit and Dynamic random-access memory · See more »

E (mathematical constant)

The number is a mathematical constant, approximately equal to 2.71828, which appears in many different settings throughout mathematics.

New!!: Bit and E (mathematical constant) · See more »

Electric charge

Electric charge is the physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when placed in an electromagnetic field.

New!!: Bit and Electric charge · See more »

Electric current

An electric current is a flow of electric charge.

New!!: Bit and Electric current · See more »

Electrical network

An electrical network is an interconnection of electrical components (e.g. batteries, resistors, inductors, capacitors, switches) or a model of such an interconnection, consisting of electrical elements (e.g. voltage sources, current sources, resistances, inductances, capacitances).

New!!: Bit and Electrical network · See more »

Electrical polarity

Electrical polarity is a term used throughout industries and fields that involve electricity.

New!!: Bit and Electrical polarity · See more »

Electricity

Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of electric charge.

New!!: Bit and Electricity · See more »

Elevator

An elevator (US and Canada) or lift (UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa, Nigeria) is a type of vertical transportation that moves people or goods between floors (levels, decks) of a building, vessel, or other structure.

New!!: Bit and Elevator · See more »

Entropy (information theory)

Information entropy is the average rate at which information is produced by a stochastic source of data.

New!!: Bit and Entropy (information theory) · See more »

Exabyte

The exabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

New!!: Bit and Exabyte · See more »

Ferromagnetism

Ferromagnetism is the basic mechanism by which certain materials (such as iron) form permanent magnets, or are attracted to magnets.

New!!: Bit and Ferromagnetism · See more »

Flip-flop (electronics)

In electronics, a flip-flop or latch is a circuit that has two stable states and can be used to store state information.

New!!: Bit and Flip-flop (electronics) · See more »

Fred Brooks

Frederick Phillips "Fred" Brooks Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is an American computer architect, software engineer, and computer scientist, best known for managing the development of IBM's System/360 family of computers and the OS/360 software support package, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book The Mythical Man-Month.

New!!: Bit and Fred Brooks · See more »

Gerrit Blaauw

Gerrit Anne (Gerry) Blaauw (July 17, 1924 - March 21, 2018) was a Dutch computer scientist, known as one of the principal designers of the IBM System/360 line of computers, together with Fred Brooks, Gene Amdahl, and others.

New!!: Bit and Gerrit Blaauw · See more »

Hartley (unit)

The hartley (symbol Hart), also called a ban, or a dit (short for decimal digit), is a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10, rather than the powers of 2 and base 2 logarithms which define the bit, or shannon.

New!!: Bit and Hartley (unit) · See more »

Herman Hollerith

Herman Hollerith (February 29, 1860 – November 17, 1929) was an American inventor who developed an electromechanical punched card tabulator to assist in summarizing information and, later, accounting.

New!!: Bit and Herman Hollerith · See more »

IBM

The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries.

New!!: Bit and IBM · See more »

IBM 7030 Stretch

The IBM 7030, also known as Stretch, was IBM's first transistorized supercomputer.

New!!: Bit and IBM 7030 Stretch · See more »

IBM System/360

The IBM System/360 (S/360) is a family of mainframe computer systems that was announced by IBM on April 7, 1964, and delivered between 1965 and 1978.

New!!: Bit and IBM System/360 · See more »

IEC 60027

IEC 60027 (formerly IEC 27) is a technical international standard for letter symbols published by the International Electrotechnical Commission, comprising the following parts.

New!!: Bit and IEC 60027 · See more »

IEEE 1541-2002

IEEE 1541-2002 is a standard issued in 2002 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) concerning the use of prefixes for binary multiples of units of measurement related to digital electronics and computing.

New!!: Bit and IEEE 1541-2002 · See more »

IEEE Std 260.1-2004

IEEE Standard IEEE Std 260.1-2004 provides standard letter symbols for units of measurement for use in all applications in multiple contexts.

New!!: Bit and IEEE Std 260.1-2004 · See more »

IEEE Transactions on Computers

IEEE Transactions on Computers is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of computer design.

New!!: Bit and IEEE Transactions on Computers · See more »

Information

Information is any entity or form that provides the answer to a question of some kind or resolves uncertainty.

New!!: Bit and Information · See more »

Information theory

Information theory studies the quantification, storage, and communication of information.

New!!: Bit and Information theory · See more »

Integer (computer science)

In computer science, an integer is a datum of integral data type, a data type that represents some range of mathematical integers.

New!!: Bit and Integer (computer science) · See more »

International Electrotechnical Commission

The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC; in French: Commission électrotechnique internationale) is an international standards organization that prepares and publishes International Standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies – collectively known as "electrotechnology".

New!!: Bit and International Electrotechnical Commission · See more »

International System of Units

The International System of Units (SI, abbreviated from the French Système international (d'unités)) is the modern form of the metric system, and is the most widely used system of measurement.

New!!: Bit and International System of Units · See more »

Irradiance

In radiometry, irradiance is the radiant flux (power) received by a surface per unit area.

New!!: Bit and Irradiance · See more »

ISO/IEC 80000

ISO 80000 or IEC 80000 is an international standard promulgated jointly by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

New!!: Bit and ISO/IEC 80000 · See more »

John Tukey

John Wilder Tukey (June 16, 1915 – July 26, 2000) was an American mathematician best known for development of the FFT algorithm and box plot.

New!!: Bit and John Tukey · See more »

Joseph Marie Jacquard

Joseph Marie Charles dit (called or nicknamed) Jacquard (7 July 1752 – 7 August 1834), was a French weaver and merchant.

New!!: Bit and Joseph Marie Jacquard · See more »

Kilo-

Kilo is a decimal unit prefix in the metric system denoting multiplication by one thousand (103).

New!!: Bit and Kilo- · See more »

Kilobit

The kilobit is a multiple of the unit bit for digital information or computer storage.

New!!: Bit and Kilobit · See more »

Konrad Zuse

Konrad Zuse (22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer.

New!!: Bit and Konrad Zuse · See more »

Logarithm

In mathematics, the logarithm is the inverse function to exponentiation.

New!!: Bit and Logarithm · See more »

Logic level

In digital circuits, a logic level is one of a finite number of states that a digital signal can inhabit.

New!!: Bit and Logic level · See more »

Lossless compression

Lossless compression is a class of data compression algorithms that allows the original data to be perfectly reconstructed from the compressed data.

New!!: Bit and Lossless compression · See more »

Magnetic core

A magnetic core is a piece of magnetic material with a high magnetic permeability used to confine and guide magnetic fields in electrical, electromechanical and magnetic devices such as electromagnets, transformers, electric motors, generators, inductors, magnetic recording heads, and magnetic assemblies.

New!!: Bit and Magnetic core · See more »

Magnetic storage

Magnetic storage or magnetic recording is the storage of data on a magnetized medium.

New!!: Bit and Magnetic storage · See more »

Magnetic stripe card

A magnetic stripe card is a type of card capable of storing data by modifying the magnetism of tiny iron-based magnetic particles on a band of magnetic material on the card.

New!!: Bit and Magnetic stripe card · See more »

Magnetic tape

Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic recording, made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film.

New!!: Bit and Magnetic tape · See more »

Magnetic-core memory

Magnetic-core memory was the predominant form of random-access computer memory for 20 years between about 1955 and 1975.

New!!: Bit and Magnetic-core memory · See more »

Magnetism

Magnetism is a class of physical phenomena that are mediated by magnetic fields.

New!!: Bit and Magnetism · See more »

McGraw-Hill Education

McGraw-Hill Education (MHE) is a learning science company and one of the "big three" educational publishers that provides customized educational content, software, and services for pre-K through postgraduate education.

New!!: Bit and McGraw-Hill Education · See more »

Morse code

Morse code is a method of transmitting text information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment.

New!!: Bit and Morse code · See more »

Nat (unit)

The natural unit of information (symbol: nat), sometimes also nit or nepit, is a unit of information or entropy, based on natural logarithms and powers of ''e'', rather than the powers of 2 and base 2 logarithms, which define the bit.

New!!: Bit and Nat (unit) · See more »

Natural logarithm

The natural logarithm of a number is its logarithm to the base of the mathematical constant ''e'', where e is an irrational and transcendental number approximately equal to.

New!!: Bit and Natural logarithm · See more »

Numerical digit

A numerical digit is a single symbol (such as "2" or "5") used alone, or in combinations (such as "25"), to represent numbers (such as the number 25) according to some positional numeral systems.

New!!: Bit and Numerical digit · See more »

Octet (computing)

The octet is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that consists of eight bits.

New!!: Bit and Octet (computing) · See more »

Optical disc

In computing and optical disc recording technologies, an optical disc (OD) is a flat, usually circular disc which encodes binary data (bits) in the form of pits (binary value of 0 or off, due to lack of reflection when read) and lands (binary value of 1 or on, due to a reflection when read) on a special material (often aluminium) on one of its flat surfaces.

New!!: Bit and Optical disc · See more »

Parallel communication

In data transmission, parallel communication is a method of conveying multiple binary digits (bits) simultaneously.

New!!: Bit and Parallel communication · See more »

Photolithography

Photolithography, also termed optical lithography or UV lithography, is a process used in microfabrication to pattern parts of a thin film or the bulk of a substrate.

New!!: Bit and Photolithography · See more »

Portmanteau

A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words,, p. 644 in which parts of multiple words or their phones (sounds) are combined into a new word, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel.

New!!: Bit and Portmanteau · See more »

Primitive data type

In computer science, primitive data type is either of the following.

New!!: Bit and Primitive data type · See more »

Programmable logic array

A programmable logic array (PLA) is a kind of programmable logic device used to implement combinational logic circuits.

New!!: Bit and Programmable logic array · See more »

Punched card

A punched card or punch card is a piece of stiff paper that can be used to contain digital data represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions.

New!!: Bit and Punched card · See more »

Punched tape

Punched tape or perforated paper tape is a form of data storage, consisting of a long strip of paper in which holes are punched to store data.

New!!: Bit and Punched tape · See more »

Quantum computing

Quantum computing is computing using quantum-mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement.

New!!: Bit and Quantum computing · See more »

Quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics (QM; also known as quantum physics, quantum theory, the wave mechanical model, or matrix mechanics), including quantum field theory, is a fundamental theory in physics which describes nature at the smallest scales of energy levels of atoms and subatomic particles.

New!!: Bit and Quantum mechanics · See more »

Quantum superposition

Quantum superposition is a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics.

New!!: Bit and Quantum superposition · See more »

Qubit

In quantum computing, a qubit or quantum bit (sometimes qbit) is a unit of quantum information—the quantum analogue of the classical binary bit.

New!!: Bit and Qubit · See more »

Ralph Hartley

Ralph Vinton Lyon Hartley (November 30, 1888 – May 1, 1970) was an electronics researcher.

New!!: Bit and Ralph Hartley · See more »

Rapid transit

Rapid transit or mass rapid transit, also known as heavy rail, metro, MRT, subway, tube, U-Bahn or underground, is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas.

New!!: Bit and Rapid transit · See more »

Read-only memory

Read-only memory (ROM) is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers and other electronic devices.

New!!: Bit and Read-only memory · See more »

Relay

A relay is an electrically operated switch.

New!!: Bit and Relay · See more »

S&P Global

S&P Global Inc. (prior to April 2016 McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., and prior to 2013 McGraw Hill Companies) is an American publicly traded corporation headquartered in New York City.

New!!: Bit and S&P Global · See more »

Science (journal)

Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.

New!!: Bit and Science (journal) · See more »

Semiconductor memory

Semiconductor memory is a digital electronic data storage device, often used as computer memory, implemented with semiconductor electronic devices on an integrated circuit (IC).

New!!: Bit and Semiconductor memory · See more »

Semyon Korsakov

Semyon Nikolaevich Korsakov (Семён Николаевич Корсаков, Semyon Nikolayevich Korsakov) (January 14, 1787 – December 1, 1853 OS) was a Russian government official, noted both as a homeopath and an inventor who was involved with an early version of information technology.

New!!: Bit and Semyon Korsakov · See more »

Serial binary adder

The serial binary adder or bit-serial adder is a digital circuit that performs binary addition bit by bit.

New!!: Bit and Serial binary adder · See more »

Serial communication

In telecommunication and data transmission, serial communication is the process of sending data one bit at a time, sequentially, over a communication channel or computer bus.

New!!: Bit and Serial communication · See more »

Shannon (unit)

The shannon (symbol: Sh), more commonly known as the bit, is a unit of information and of entropy defined by IEC 80000-13.

New!!: Bit and Shannon (unit) · See more »

Sign (mathematics)

In mathematics, the concept of sign originates from the property of every non-zero real number of being positive or negative.

New!!: Bit and Sign (mathematics) · See more »

State (computer science)

In information technology and computer science, a program is described as stateful if it is designed to remember preceding events or user interactions; the remembered information is called the state of the system.

New!!: Bit and State (computer science) · See more »

Switch

In electrical engineering, a switch is an electrical component that can "make" or "break" an electrical circuit, interrupting the current or diverting it from one conductor to another.

New!!: Bit and Switch · See more »

Telephone exchange

A telephone exchange is a telecommunications system used in the public switched telephone network or in large enterprises.

New!!: Bit and Telephone exchange · See more »

Teletype Corporation

The Teletype Corporation, a part of American Telephone and Telegraph Company's Western Electric manufacturing arm since 1930, came into being in 1928 when the Morkrum-Kleinschmidt Company changed its name to the name of its trademark equipment.

New!!: Bit and Teletype Corporation · See more »

Ternary numeral system

The ternary numeral system (also called base 3) has three as its base.

New!!: Bit and Ternary numeral system · See more »

Ticker tape

Ticker tape was the earliest digital electronic communications medium, transmitting stock price information over telegraph lines, in use between around 1870 through 1970.

New!!: Bit and Ticker tape · See more »

Traffic light

Traffic lights, also known as traffic signals, traffic lamps, traffic semaphore, signal lights, stop lights, robots (in South Africa and most of Africa), and traffic control signals (in technical parlance), are signalling devices positioned at road intersections, pedestrian crossings, and other locations to control flows of traffic.

New!!: Bit and Traffic light · See more »

Transistor–transistor logic

Transistor–transistor logic (TTL) is a logic family built from bipolar junction transistors.

New!!: Bit and Transistor–transistor logic · See more »

Truth value

In logic and mathematics, a truth value, sometimes called a logical value, is a value indicating the relation of a proposition to truth.

New!!: Bit and Truth value · See more »

Units of information

In computing and telecommunications, a unit of information is the capacity of some standard data storage system or communication channel, used to measure the capacities of other systems and channels.

New!!: Bit and Units of information · See more »

UTF-8

UTF-8 is a variable width character encoding capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid code points in Unicode using one to four 8-bit bytes.

New!!: Bit and UTF-8 · See more »

Vacuum tube

In electronics, a vacuum tube, an electron tube, or just a tube (North America), or valve (Britain and some other regions) is a device that controls electric current between electrodes in an evacuated container.

New!!: Bit and Vacuum tube · See more »

Value (computer science)

In computer science, a value is the representation of some entity that can be manipulated by a program.

New!!: Bit and Value (computer science) · See more »

Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through which almost all wartime military R&D was carried out, including initiation and early administration of the Manhattan Project.

New!!: Bit and Vannevar Bush · See more »

Voltage

Voltage, electric potential difference, electric pressure or electric tension (formally denoted or, but more often simply as V or U, for instance in the context of Ohm's or Kirchhoff's circuit laws) is the difference in electric potential between two points.

New!!: Bit and Voltage · See more »

Werner Buchholz

Werner Buchholz (born 24 October 1922 in Detmold, Germany) is a noted American computer scientist.

New!!: Bit and Werner Buchholz · See more »

Word (computer architecture)

In computing, a word is the natural unit of data used by a particular processor design.

New!!: Bit and Word (computer architecture) · See more »

Yotta-

Yotta is the largest decimal unit prefix in the metric system, denoting a factor of 1024 or; that is, one million million million million, or one septillion.

New!!: Bit and Yotta- · See more »

Yottabit

The yottabit is a multiple of the unit bit for digital information or computer storage.

New!!: Bit and Yottabit · See more »

Redirects here:

0 or 1, 1 or 0, Bigit, Bigit (computing), Binary Digit, Binary Digits, Binary bits, Binary digit, Binary digits, Binit, Binit (computing), Bit (computing), Bit (information), Bit (unit), Bit of information, Bit pattern, Bits (computing), Data bits, Millibit.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »