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Tiny bites of food, or tiny bits of data, depending on the appetite.
means Small mouthfuls of snack food, or in computing, four-bit half-bytes of information.
from From the verb nibble, to bite gently in small amounts, of Low German roots; the computing sense is a pun on byte, since a nibble is literally half a bite.
Exactly halfA nibble is four bits, half a byte.
Hex sweet spotOne nibble equals one hexadecimal digit.
Spelling rebelsSometimes written nybble to echo byte.