BITS

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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 detachable 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, which is a North America termnology for a common reference clock for intra-offic devices, see Timing Redundancy in Telecommunication Systems and Timing, Clocking, and Synchronization in the T-carrier System for more technical description. For other area the term SSU (Sync Supply Unit) is used.
• 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 then using that for legal tender. "Shave and a haircut, 2 bits".