unit of information
capacity of information storage and communication
packet
formatted unit of data carried by all packet-switching networks
word
base memory unit handled by a computer
kilobit
unit of digital information equal to one thousand bits
gigabyte
unit of digital information equal to one billion bytes or 1,000 megabytes
megabyte
unit of digital information equal to one million bytes or 1,000 kilobytes
exabyte
unit of digital information equal to one quintillion bytes or 1,000 petabytes
nat
logarithmic unit of information
byte
unit of digital information equal to 8 bits
datagram
basic transfer unit in OSI Layer 4 network; typically has header and payload sections; portmanteau of ‘data’ + ‘telegram’
bit
basic unit of information in computing and digital communications
terabyte
unit of digital information equal to one trillion bytes or 1,000 gigabytes
data cluster
contiguous, fixed-size block of sectors that some filesystems use as a unit of disk space allocation
nibble
four-bit unit of digital information
kilobyte
unit of digital information equal to one thousand bytes
shannon
unit of information
octet
unit of digital information
quadruple word
area of computer memory containing four words
hartley
unit of information; log₂(10) bits
author's sheet
publication base sheet, printed sheet
gigabit
unit of digital information equal to one billion bits or 1,000 megabits
megabit
unit of digital information equal to one million bits or 1,000 kilobits
double word
area of computer memory containing two words