octets

These are often called octets, because they're made up of 8 bits.

CertCities.com | IT Forums 2009

During the season of Great Lent this year, sixteen SVS seminarians will go out to visit parishes-at times as a combined choral group, and at other times as two "octets" - and will sing the Pre-sanctified Liturgies prescribed for the Lenten season.

News from SVOTS.Edu 2009

West Coast players also tended to experiment more with jazz ensembles of different sizes such as octets and nonets, as opposed to the more standard trios, quartets and quintets and interesting combinations of instruments.

NPR Topics: News 2010

The noble gases (helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon) possess full octets, which they guard closely (notice their high ionization energies and small atomic radii), and tend not to interact with other atoms.

Wolfram Blog : What’s Your Favorite Element? 2009

It can be seen that they have some of the highest electronegativities and therefore hold their electrons close, resulting in their relatively small atomic radii, but they are eager to obtain their octets, and are willing to do so by bonding with other atoms to form molecules.

Wolfram Blog : What’s Your Favorite Element? 2009

For the second show on Saturday, the hall was filled with two very different chamber ensembles: the legendary Guarneri Quartet in the midst of a national farewell tour were accompanied by the much younger Johannes Quartet for what was promised as a series of octets and new works.

Strings, Attached 2008

For the second show on Saturday, the hall was filled with two very different chamber ensembles: the legendary Guarneri Quartet in the midst of a national farewell tour were accompanied by the much younger Johannes Quartet for what was promised as a series of octets and new works.

Archive 2008-11-01 2008

UTF-8 encodes each character (code point) in 1 to 4 octets (8-bit bytes), with the single octet encoding used only for the 128 US-ASCII characters.

another meaning for PR mj 2009

UTF-8 encodes each character (code point) in 1 to 4 octets (8-bit bytes), with the single octet encoding used only for the 128 US-ASCII characters.

Universal computer language mj 2009

Since the first two characters of a JSON text will always be ASCII characters [RFC0020], it is possible to determine whether an octet stream is UTF-8, UTF-16 (BE or LE), or UTF-32 (BE or LE) by looking at the pattern of nulls in the first four octets.

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