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Definition bit
Etymology 1
From Middle English bitte, bite, from Old English bita (“bit; fragment; morsel”) and bite (“a bite; cut”), from Proto-Germanic *bitô and *bitiz; both from Proto-Indo-European *b?eyd- (“to split”). Cognate with West Frisian bit, Saterland Frisian Bit, Dutch bit, German Low German Beet, Biet, German Biss, Danish bid, Swedish bit, Icelandic biti.
Noun
bit (plural bits)
- A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
- A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
- (dated, Britain) A coin of a specified value. (Also formerly used for a nine-pence coin in the British Caribbean, and a fourpenny piece, or groat, in the British West Indies.)
- (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime.
- (US) 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.)
- (historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly current; commonly, one worth about 12½ cents; also, the sum of 12½ cents.
- A small amount of something.
- (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
- (plural, informal, sports) Fractions of a second.
- A portion of something.
- Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
- (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
- An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
- The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
- The cutting iron of a plane.
Verb
bit (third-person singular simple present bits, present participle bitting, simple past and past participle bitted)
- (transitive) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
Etymology 2
See bite
Verb
bit
Adjective
bit (not comparable)
- (colloquial) bitten.
- (only in combination) Having been bitten.
Etymology 3
Coined by John Tukey in 1946 as an abbreviation of binary digit, probably influenced by connotations of “small portion”.[3][4] First used in print 1948 by Claude Shannon. Compare byte and nybble.
Noun
bit (plural bits)
- (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
- (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
- (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
- (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
- A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
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