Terabyte

//ˈtɛɹəˌbaɪt// noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One trillion (10¹², or 1,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 gigabytes.
  2. 2
    a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes wordnet
  3. 3
    A tebibyte. informal
  4. 4
    a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
tbgigabytepetabytetbtebibytetib

Example

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"The Terabyte Infrared Delivery (TBIRD) CubeSat payload will demonstrate laser downlinks at 200 Gbps – a new record for laser communications data rates."

Etymology

From tera- + byte.

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