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.
Source: wiktionary
Petabyte
//ˈpɛtəbaɪt//
Synonyms for "petabyte" (6 found)
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2 entriesTranslations
25 translations across 20 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- بِيتَابَايْت noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- PB noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
- 拍字節 /拍字节 noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
- 拍它字節 /拍它字节 noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
Czech
2 entries- petabajt noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
- petabyte noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
Esperanto
2 entries- petabajto noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
- petabitoko noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
Finnish
1 entries- petatavu noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
French
1 entries- pétaoctet noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
Georgian
1 entries- პეტაბაიტი noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
German
1 entries- Petabyte noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
Greek
2 entries- πεταδυφιοσυλλαβή noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
- πεταμπάιτ noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
Hungarian
1 entries- petabyte noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
Japanese
1 entries- ペタバイト noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
Korean
1 entries- 페타바이트 noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
Macedonian
1 entries- петабајт noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
Malay
1 entries- petabait noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
Navajo
1 entries- są́ą́łtsohʼííłké noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
Polish
1 entries- petabajt noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
Portuguese
1 entries- petabyte noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
Russian
1 entries- петаба́йт noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
Thai
1 entries- เพตะไบต์ noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
Uyghur
1 entries- پېتابايت noun (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
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.
Source: wiktionary
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