bytedisplacement

noun

UK /ˈbaɪt.dɪsˌpleɪs.mənt/

US /ˈbaɪt.dɪsˌpleɪs.mənt/

A byte displacement is how far away one piece of computer data is from another.

The program used a byte displacement to find the next letter in the file.

SYNONYMS

byte offset data offset memory offset byte distance

RELATED WORDS

byte offset memory address pointer data storage

OTHER MEANINGS

2. The act of moving a group of bytes from one place to another in memory.

The byte displacement during the copy made the old data unreadable.

3. A measurement of the gap between two positions in a computer's memory.

A small byte displacement meant the two values were stored close together.

4. A shift in the position of data caused by adding or removing bytes.

The byte displacement broke the file because the header changed size.