hart

noun

1. A male deer, especially the male of the red deer after his fifth year.

2. A logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10.

   “The ban pre-dates Shannon's use of bit as a unit of information by at least eight years, and remains in use in the early 21st Century.”

   Similar: hartley, ban, dit

Obsolete spelling of heart