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Re:How ASCII lost and unicode won by chiph on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @02:04PM (#6014115)
There's probably some variation in the terminology, but I always used these terms:

    bit
    nibble (4 bits)
    nybble (6 bits)
    byte (8 bits)
    word (16 bits)
    :
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