Look up octet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Octet may refer to: Octet (music), ensemble consisting of eight instruments or voices, or composition...

The octet is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that consists of eight bits. The term is often used when the term byte...

The octet rule is a chemical rule of thumb that reflects the theory that main-group elements tend to bond in such a way that each atom has eight electrons...

The violin octet is a family of stringed instruments developed in the 20th century primarily under the direction of the American luthier Carleen Hutchins...

music, an octet is a musical ensemble consisting of eight instruments or voices, or a musical composition written for such an ensemble. Octets in classical...

half an octet. It is also known as half-byte or tetrade. In a networking or telecommunications context, the nibble is often called a semi-octet, quadbit...

Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds...

each byte is an 8-bit quantity, and so the term octet stream is sometimes used interchangeably. An octet may be encoded as a sequence of 8 bits in multiple...

The String Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20, MWV R 20, was written by the 16-year-old Felix Mendelssohn during the fall of 1825 and completed on October...

single octet, in which bit 8 is 1, and bits 1–7 are 0. Then, two end-of-contents octets must terminate the content octets. The contents octets encode...