exabyte

From exa- +‎ byte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛksəbaɪt/

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exabyte (plural exabytes)

1. (computing) One quintillion (10¹⁸, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 petabytes.
   • 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan, published 2020, page 4:

     Altogether, the human brain is estimated to hold something in the order of 200 exabytes of information.

   • 2019, Andreas Hepp, Deep Mediatization: Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies‎, Routledge, →ISBN:

     North American cloud traffic in 2015 measured 1.891 exabytes per year, in the Asia Pacific 908 exabytes per year, […]

   • 2021, Giuseppe Arbia, quoting Eric Schmidt, Statistics, New Empiricism and Society in the Era of Big Data, Springer Nature, →ISBN, pages 4–5:

     In 2010, Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, stated: “There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days” (Schmidt, 2010). Schmidt's forecast, indeed, proved to be an underestimation.

2. (computing, informal) a exbibyte.

• EB

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• exabajt

Derived from English exabyte, as if exa- +‎ byte.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛɡzabajt]

exabyte m inan

1. exabyte

• byte in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Unadapted borrowing from English exabyte.

exabyte m (plural exabytes)

1. (computing) exabyte (one quintillion bytes)

• Abbreviations: EB

• Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

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