Bits

BITS may have any of the following meanings:

In computer science, bits are binary digits, which may each have the value one or zero.
BITS or Background Intelligent Transfer Service is a file transfer protocol in Windows Server 2003 and later Microsoft Windows operating systems.
BITS or BITS Pilani may refer to the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, a premier science and technology university located in India.
BITS may refer to the Bukarester Idishe Teater Studie, a highly experimental Yiddish theater founded in Bucharest, Romania in 1930.
BITS was a British television program about computer and video games, hosted by Emily Booth, Aleks Krotoski and Emily Newton Dunn.
Bits are the detatchable fronts of some screwdrivers or drills.
BITS also means Business Information Technology Services.
Bits is also the name of a hermit character in the Octagon series of novels written by Andrew & Shawn Brooks.
BITS may refer to the [Berlin Information-center for Transatlantic Security], which provides independent expertise on military security issues
BITS may refer to Building Integrated Timing Source
Bits historically were a term for an 1/8th of a Dollar. There used to be a practice of breaking a Spanish dollar coin into 8 individual pieces and the using that for legal tender. "Shave and a haircut, 2 bits".

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