petabyte

See also: Petabyte

English

Etymology

From peta- + byte.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɛtəbaɪt/
  • (file)

Noun

petabyte (plural petabytes)

  1. One quadrillion (1015, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 terabytes.
  2. (computing, informal) a pebibyte.
    • 2008 June 23, Chris Anderson, “The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete”, in Wired, →ISSN:
      As we moved along that progression, we went from the folder analogy to the file cabinet analogy to the library analogy to — well, at petabytes we ran out of organizational analogies.
    • 2017, Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Higher Education under Late Capitalism, Springer, →ISBN, page 82:
      The Hadron Collider has gone from producing 320 terabytes of data a week to a petabyte a second. In short, it has been said that the total amount of data created worldwide in 2011 was about one zetabyte[sic] (or 1,000,000 petabytes) and that this figure will increase by 50%–60% in each subsequent year.

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Czech

Alternative forms

Etymology

From peta- + byte.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɛtabajt]

Noun

petabyte m inan

  1. petabyte

Declension

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English petabyte.

Noun

petabyte m (plural petabytes)

  1. (computing) petabyte (one quadrillion bytes)

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