Definition of "bit"
- noun
A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to reins to direct the animal.
A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to make holes.
An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first came into use, the Spanish 8 reales coin was widely used as a dollar equivalent, and thus the 1 real coin was equivalent to 12.5 cents.).
A coin of a specified value. (Also used for a nine-pence coin in the British Caribbean.).
A small amount of something.
Specifically, a small amount of time.
A portion of something.
A prison sentence, especially a short one.
An excerpt of material from a composition or show.
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.
A unit of measure for information entropy.
- adverb
To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a").
- verb
- adjective
(colloquial) bitten.
Having been bitten.
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