oct

n. a short way to write October, the tenth month of the year.

n. a standard abbreviation for October, typically used in dates and informal writing.

“The event is scheduled for Oct 15th at the city library.”

“The contract was signed on Oct 24, ensuring that the project would commence before the end of the fiscal year.”

n. a way of counting using eight numbers (0 to 7) instead of ten.

n. a base-8 numbering system commonly used in computing as a more compact representation of binary numbers.

“The programmer changed the file permissions using an oct value.”

“While hexadecimal is more common today, legacy systems often represent file permissions and character encodings in oct format.”

Technical · Informal