A form of magnetic tape technology for audio storage, popular from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s. / (countable) A cartridge for an 8-track player.

(computing) Unicode Transformation Format-8, a variable-width encoding scheme for Unicode characters, using sequences of one to four one-byte (eight-bit) code units per character.

(curling) The 8-foot diameter circle in the house.

plural of 8 ball

(humorous, networking) OSI layer 8; the users of a computer network.

(computing, of a word size, or an integer) Represented using units of 8 bits (1 byte) / (computer graphics, music) Originating from or resembling the art or music of the 8-bit computer era.

(music) A meter of six eighth notes per measure, usually with secondary stress on the fourth eighth note.

Alternative spelling of lazy eight

plural of 8-cell

(geometry) A four-dimensional polytope, analogous to a cube, whose eight bounding facets are cubes; a tesseract.