Petabyte
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈpɛtəbaɪt/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Petabyte is a noun meaning One quadrillion (10¹⁵, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 terabytes.
Meaning
One quadrillion (10¹⁵, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 terabytes.
More Meanings
- (computing, informal) A pebibyte.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
Word Forms
- petabytes
Synonyms for petabyte
Depending on context, synonyms include PB.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include terabyte, exabyte, petabit, zettabyte, yottabyte, quettabyte.
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