Zettabyte
/ˈzɛtəbaɪt/ noun, slang
noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One sextillion (10²¹, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 exabytes.
"Cerberus Scientist: I'm sorry, sir. None of Normandy's surveillance feeds have been responding since Shepard went rogue. Illusive Man: I want it back. Retry the remote lockdown protocols. Cerberus Scientist: After our last attempt, EDI flooded our server with seven zettabytes of explicit images. I think she was making a joke."
- 2 a unit of information equal to 1024 exbibytes or 2^70 bytes wordnet
- 3 A zebibyte. informal
- 4 a unit of information equal to 1000 exabytes or 10^21 bytes wordnet
Synonyms
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More examples"Cerberus Scientist: I'm sorry, sir. None of Normandy's surveillance feeds have been responding since Shepard went rogue. Illusive Man: I want it back. Retry the remote lockdown protocols. Cerberus Scientist: After our last attempt, EDI flooded our server with seven zettabytes of explicit images. I think she was making a joke."
Etymology
From zetta- + byte.