Hellabyte

Quick meaning: Hellabyte is a noun meaning (rare, nonstandard, informal) 10²⁷ or 2⁹⁰ bytes.

Meaning

(rare, nonstandard, informal) 10²⁷ or 2⁹⁰ bytes.

Example Sentences

Now imagine constructing something like that for 100 arguments. Your routine would run into the millions of hellabytes.

At these rates of growth, within the next decade or two, the human race could well be sitting on top of more than 1 × 10²⁷ bytes of data—that’s a whole hellabyte.

We are running out of words to describe how much data we have.[…]MIT’s Andrew McAfee and others have actually proposed that we settle on “hellabyte” – as in, “helluva lot of data,” to describe the next stage of the data deluge.

> I have a few episodes on one of my hard drives...downloading some more / > now...[…]I've had this very intention ever since the news of Cannell's death reminded me of how much I loved TRF [The Rockford Files]. Picked up another hard drive with hellabyte capacity. ;^)

Word Forms

• hellabytes

Synonyms for hellabyte

Depending on context, synonyms include brontobyte, ronnabyte.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include terabyte, petabyte, brontobyte, exabyte, tbyte, geopbyte.

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