Octet

Octet

(1) The minimal unit of addressable storage for a particular computer architecture. (2) An octet. Note that many early computer architectures used bytes larger than 8 bits in size, but the industry has now standardised almost uniformly on 8-bit bytes. The Unicode Standard follows the current industry practise in equating the term byte with octet and using the more familiar term byte in all contexts.

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Music; Classical

A composition written for eight instruments.

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Computer; Software; Unicode standard

(1) The minimal unit of addressable storage for a particular computer architecture. (2) An octet. Note that many early computer architectures used bytes larger than 8 bits in ...

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Telecommunications; General telecom

A byte of eight binary digits usually operated upon as an entity.

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Software; Globalization software service

(1) A byte composed of eight binary elements. (2) In Internet Protocol (IP) addressing, one of the four parts of a 32-bit integer presented in dotted decimal notation. See also ...

octet

Chemistry; General chemistry

In Lewis structures the goal is to make almost all atoms have an octet. This means that they will have access to 8 electrons regularly, even if they do have to share some of them.

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Software; Operating systems

A unit of data that consists of exactly 8 bits, regardless of the number of bits a computer uses to represent a small amount of information such as a character.

Unicode encoding form

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

A Unicode encoding form assigns each Unicode scalar value to a unique code unit sequence. The Unicode Standard defines three Unicode encoding forms: UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32. * ...

Unicode encoding scheme

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

A specified byte serialization for a Unicode encoding form, including the specification of the handling of a byte order mark (BOM), if allowed. * For historical reasons, the ...

Unicode locale data markup language (LDML)

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

The XML specification for the exchange of locale data, defined by Unicode Technical Standard #35, "Unicode Locale Data Markup Language (LDML)." (See also Unicode Common Locale ...

Unicode scalar value

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ny Unicode code point except high-surrogate and low-surrogate code points. In other words, the ranges of integers 0 to D7FF16 and E00016 to 10FFFF16 inclusive. * As a result of ...

Unicode signature

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

An implicit marker to identify a file as containing Unicode text in a particular encoding form. An initial byte order mark (BOM) may be used as a Unicode signature.

Unicode Standard Annex (UAX)

Computer; Software; Unicode standard

An integral part of the Unicode Standard published as a separate document.

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