Bits
/bɪts/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:6 ptsWWF:7 pts4 letters
Definition of Bits
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).
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