Brontobyte

//ˈbɹɒntəbaɪt// noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    10²⁷ or 2⁹⁰ bytes. informal

    "We believe this is the first time a company has ever talked about a machine that can crunch through “brontobytes” of data. (The word reminds us of brontosaurus, the largest dinosaur.) And just how big is that? It's 1,000 Yottabytes, of course."

Synonyms

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hellabyteronnabyte

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"We believe this is the first time a company has ever talked about a machine that can crunch through “brontobytes” of data. (The word reminds us of brontosaurus, the largest dinosaur.) And just how big is that? It's 1,000 Yottabytes, of course."

Etymology

From bronto- + byte, in reference to the brontosaurus, a very large dinosaur.

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