bit
/ˈbɪt/
the fundamental unit of information; a binary choice
bit in a sentence
“Each yes/no question extracts one bit of information.”
Origin of bit
Portmanteau of 'binary digit' coined by John Tukey
Related Words
mutual information
the amount of information one variable contains about another
entropy
a measure of uncertainty or randomness in information; the average information content
redundancy
the use of more information than necessary; repetition that aids error correction
compression
reducing the size of data by eliminating redundancy
encoding
converting information from one form to another for transmission or storage
decoding
extracting the original information from an encoded form