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Petabyte

//ˈpɛtəbaɪt// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    One quadrillion (10¹⁵, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 terabytes.
  2. 2
    a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 bytes wordnet
  3. 3
    A pebibyte. informal

    "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."

  4. 4
    a unit of information equal to 1000 terabytes or 10^15 bytes wordnet

Etymology

From peta- + byte.

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