octet

IPA: ɑktˈɛt

A group or set of eight of something.
(music) A group of eight musicians performing together.
(music) A composition for such a group of musicians.
(computing) A byte of eight bits. Abbreviation: o
(computing, rare) A group of three bits, representing any of eight possible values.

Examples of "octet" in Sentences

(The term "octet" is used by Internet documentation for such 8-bit chunks.
As a 16-year-old, Mendelssohn wrote the featured octet, which is considered to be one of his masterpieces, she said.
Yet another one of Gordon Brown's 'octet' - the eight advisers named in The Spectator three years ago - is moving on.
You can usually do this by looking to see what it was when it was automatic, and then changing the last number (the 4th #, or "octet", i.e. the
Traveling choral groups have been part of seminary's tradition since 1962, when the first men's "octet" began touring the country during the seminary's summer hiatus from classes.
For example, you might want to subnet an address like 10. 1.x.0, where the first two octets are fixed because they are used in the extended network prefix, and the fourth octet is 0 because all bits are used for the host number.