What's the difference between byte and char?

Byte


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Authors describe the classification of the malocclusion by Angle, and considerate one open byte case, may be caused by extrusion of first lower right molar, describing orthodontic treatment for his correction.
  • (2) The images are stored on the hard disk: each image requires 3M bytes, but it can be compressed down to 25:1 with no detail loss.
  • (3) Images were acquired in dynamic-byte mode, 128 X 128 matrix size, every one minute up to 40 minutes.
  • (4) The host computer sends a stream of bytes to the parallel port that specifies the configuration of the desired output pulses.
  • (5) For some, this visibility is empowering, but all it offers me is an unspoken pressure to give money, wear pink, have something specific and meaningful to say and a cause to champion, when I have no money, prefer neutrals and don’t have many thoughts I’m inclined to boil down to sound bytes.
  • (6) The word he repeatedly emphasized was “heart”, at times placing his hand over his chest while vowing to be the candidate who would go to bat for conservative causes even if he wasn’t able to sum it up in the ideal debate sound byte.
  • (7) A new computer memory using a laser beam to impress dimples on a standard credit card has been devised which contains about 2 million bytes (700 typed pages) and which has been formatted with software to permit access to a complete medical record which can be carried by the patient and updated at each encounter with the health care system.
  • (8) The encrypted text file is very small - just 211 bytes in size - but is large enough to contain, say, a couple of sentences.
  • (9) In the form presented here the routine converts incoming bytes into separate lines and saves these lines in a file.
  • (10) The amplified EMG signals were digitized using a sampling frequency of 50 samples per second, and numerical data was stored immediately on the hard disk (1 datum = 1 byte).
  • (11) He plans to look at streetlights in upcoming research: “Most of the products we take a look at are insecure; they have vulnerabilities and allow hackers to compromise them.” Many of the weaknesses are basic, he says: devices often don’t do adequate validation of the data being sent to them, failing to check whether malicious streams of information are being sent rather than legitimate bits and bytes determining their functions.
  • (12) Four hundred fifteen finger joints from 30 patients were evaluated for the presence of joint-space erosion, narrowing, and degenerative spurring on plain films, low-resolution digitized images (1024 x 840 bytes x 12 bit matrix), and high-resolution digitized images (2048 x 1680 bytes x 12 bit matrix).
  • (13) Data from 200 measurements is stored in a 2K byte RAM CMOS system.
  • (14) The file is written as a continuous byte stream, with no line or page formating.
  • (15) The large number of bytes being shifted by Netflix is a poor proxy for that detailed picture.
  • (16) Thousands of images have been transmitted to a site more than 15 miles away, with data rates exceeding 56,000 bits or 7,000 bytes (1 byte = 8 bits) per second with nearly perfect accuracy.
  • (17) TMG's other brands include Deltapoint, RAZSOR, 2nd Byte and Autotrade-mail.
  • (18) The data are transferred via RS-232C, and the each byte of data is received by MS-DOS BIOS call.
  • (19) In order to extend this method to images whose pixel values may vary from 8 bits per pixel to 16 bits per pixel, single byte coding is suggested.
  • (20) Lyme's disease (LD) is a multisystemic infection due to Borrelia Burgdorferi transmitted through the byte of a vector arthropod of the Ixodes genre.

Char


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Charr
  • (n.) A car; a chariot.
  • (n.) Work done by the day; a single job, or task; a chore.
  • (v. t.) Alt. of Chare
  • (v. i.) Alt. of Chare
  • (n.) To reduce to coal or carbon by exposure to heat; to reduce to charcoal; to burn to a cinder.
  • (n.) To burn slightly or partially; as, to char wood.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Angioscopy provided cross-sectional topographic views of thrombosed lumen and showed charring and shrinkage of thrombus following laser angioplasty.
  • (2) After spraying the plates with phosphoric acid and heating, the amount of carbon from the charred compounds is measured densitometrically.
  • (3) The frontal cortex, hippocampus, and basal ganglia were dissected at -15 degrees C. The lipids were separated by column and high-performance thin-layer chromatography and quantified by charring and densitometry.
  • (4) The body of one of the men was reportedly found charred and lying on a cot.
  • (5) It posted photos on its website of what it said was Thargyal's charred body covered in ceremonial yellow silk scarves and hundreds of people marching up a hill to a cremation site where his remains were burned.
  • (6) The activity of germination factor was resistant to boiling, but was lost on charring and dialysis.
  • (7) St Pancras himself, of whom precious little is known, is buried in Rome, a long way from the charred and soiled remains of the 19th-century slums of Agar Town that were demolished to make way for the Midland Railway's steamy entrance into London.
  • (8) When the RF probe approached perpendicularly to the cadaver arterial wall, a crater with charring and coagulating necrosis was formed.
  • (9) The buzz won Charli a deal with Asylum, a subsidiary of major label Atlantic, but she didn't release another thing until 2011.
  • (10) The percent reductions were 61 in one rabbit fed cholestyramine, 61 and 67 in two rabbits fed 1% Super Char, and 90 in one rabbit fed 2% Super Char.
  • (11) Wounds in group CS were "sterilized" (0.5-mm spot size, 25 W, CW) by gently heating the wound without causing blanching or charring.
  • (12) Histologic examination confirmed that this thrombogenicity was associated with greater charring and coagulation necrosis of the media.
  • (13) Charly Rexach played for Barcelona between 1965 and 1981 and talks about winning the cup, "their cup", as a way of "really pissing [Real Madrid] off."
  • (14) We investigated the capacity of bone char to remove fluoride from water and its effects on selected bio-indicator organisms.
  • (15) The charred surface of fish and beef showed strong mutagenic activity in Salmonella typhimurium test strains when activated by S-9 mix of rat liver.
  • (16) Lased root surfaces revealed craters with a superficial charred layer closely associated with new cementum-like matrix.
  • (17) The pH of distilled water following contact with bone char rose to 11.5 for white bone-char, 8.3 for grey bone-char, and 7.8 for black bone-char.
  • (18) Estrogen-binding activity was investigated in liver nuclear and cytosolic preparations of sexually mature female brook char, Salvelinus fontinalis.
  • (19) Grilled onion salad with pomegranates Serves 4 1kg new season's onions with tops on (or red and spring onions), roots trimmed and washed 1 large pomegranate, or 100g picked pomegranate seeds 1 tbs finely chopped fresh mint For the dressing: 1 large pomegranate, or 100g picked pomegranate seeds 1 small garlic clove, crushed to a paste with salt 6 tbs extra virgin olive oil sea salt and black pepper Place the onions whole over a hot barbecue, directly on the naked flame of a gas hob or under the grill until the skin is charred and crispy all over and the flesh is very soft, for about 15-40 minutes depending on the size of the onions.
  • (20) Basically, our welfare state has created a beautiful society but we need to keep it that way.” Over a drink in Charly’s, Lone Lincoln Steffensen, the DPP’s regional vice-president, repeats the sentiments of Ragna from Västerås.