Morpheme
Bit
Type
free base
Denotation
binary digit
Etymology
1946 coinage by John Tukey from blend of binary + digit, probably influenced by “small portion” notion of bit
Evidence
bit, bitarray, bitboard, bitcent, bitcoin, bitfield, bitfilter, bitflag, bitflip, bitlength, bitline, bitmap, bitmask, bitness, bitplane, bitpop, bitrange, bitrate, bits, bitscore, bitset, bitsquatting, bitstate, bitstream, bitstring, bitvector, bitwidth, bitwise, exabit, fakebit, gibibit, gigabit, hexit, interbit, kibibit, killbit, kilobit, mebibit, multibit, nepit, pebibit, petabit, quadbit, quettabit, ronnabit, tebibit, trit, yottabit, zeptobit, zettabit
See Also
Bin(e) [Bine, Bin], Digit, Bit, Byte
