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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: perhaps alteration of ²bite Date: 1962 a unit of computer information or data-storage capacity that consists of a group of eight bits and that is used especially to represent an alphanumeric character — compare word 2c

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Computing a group of eight binary digits, often used to represent one character. Etymology: 20th c.: perh. based on BIT(4) and BITE

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(bytes) In computing, a byte is a unit of storage approximately equivalent to one printed character. ...two million bytes of data. N-COUNT