nybble
Noun
Meaning
a small byte
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Examples
A four-bit quantity is known as a nibble (when eating, being smaller than a bite) or nybble (being a pun on the form of the word byte).
A person may need several nibbles for one bite from something; similarly, a nybble is a part of a byte.
The alternative spelling 'nybble' reflects the spelling of 'byte', as noted in editorials of Kilobaud and Byte in the early 1980s.