BIT

The smallest unit of computerized data. A bit is either "on" or "off" and is represented by "1" or "0".

A contraction of binary digit, a bit is the smallest unit of information that a computer can hold. Eight bits is equivalent to a byte. The speed at which bits are transmitted or bit rate is usually expressed as bits per second or bps.

(Binary DigIT) -- A single digit number in base-2, in other words, either a 1 or a zero. The smallest unit of computerized data. Bandwidth is usually measured in bits-per-second.

BIT (Binary DigIT ) Short for binary digit 0 or 1 .Lover case b is used in abbreviations to distinguish it from bytes.For example,KBps(1000 bytes per second) is 8 times as great as Kbps(1000 bits per second).

The name supposedly comes from "Binary DigIT", not from that thing you put around a horse's mouth. A bit is a single digit number in base-2 (a zero or a one) and is the smallest unit of computer data. A full page of text is typically somewhere around 16,000 bits. The most common area where bits are used intstead of bytes, is to measure bandwidth (in bits-per-second). Why? Probably because it makes your Internet connection sound faster than it really is. Abbreviation: "b".