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bytestrings

bytestrings is the plural of bytestring.

Meaning of bytestring

Noun

bytestring (plural bytestrings)

  1. A text string treated as a series of single bytes rather than a series of characters of possibly varying storage size.
    • However, the underlying file model of these approaches is that of Unix files (i.e., bytestrings), whereas we assume record-structured files with key-based access.1994, Richard T. Snodgrass, Marianne Southall Winslett, Association for Computing Machinery. Special Interest Group on Management of Data, Proceedings (page 255)

Questions about bytestrings

What is bytestrings the plural of?
Bytestrings is the plural of bytestring.

Words near bytestrings in the dictionary

  1. byter
  2. byters
  3. bytes
  4. bytesexual
  5. bytestring
  6. bytestrings
  7. bytewise
  8. bythitid
  9. bythitids
  10. bythograeid
  11. bythograeids

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