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petabyte
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See also: Petabyte
English
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Noun
petabyte (plural petabytes)
- One quadrillion (1015, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 terabytes.
- (computing, informal) A pebibyte.
- 2008 June 23, Chris Anderson, “The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete”, in Wired, →ISSN:
- 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.
- 2017, Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Higher Education under Late Capitalism, Springer, →ISBN, page 82:
- 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.
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1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes
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Czech
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Noun
petabyte m inan
Declension
Declension of petabyte (hard masculine inanimate foreign)
Further reading
- “byte”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995
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Portuguese
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petabyte m (plural petabytes)
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- “petabyte”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
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