eight bits

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Clusters of eight bits, forming the equivalent of a single letter in ordinary language, are called bytes.

From Time Magazine Archive

A letter or character is made up of eight bits.

From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation

This is fatal to binary files because their bit pattern has nothing to do with the groups of eight bits that make up text.

From Email 101 by Goodwin, John

The information is left in the right eight bits of the In-Out Register, the remainder of the register being left clear.

From Preliminary Specifications: Programmed Data Processor Model Three (PDP-3) October, 1960 by Digital Equipment Corporation

It takes eight bits to make up one letter or character.

From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation