Meaning & use
Octets
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Groups or units consisting of eight things, such as eight musicians performing together or eight bits of binary data.
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The chamber ensemble performed several octets by Mendelssohn and Schubert.
Each IP address is written as four octets separated by dots.
A note on using this word
In computing, 'octet' is the precise technical term for a unit of eight bits, used to avoid ambiguity with 'byte,' which historically varied in size.
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