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brontobytes

brontobytes is the plural of brontobyte.

Meaning of brontobyte

Noun

brontobyte (plural brontobytes)

  1. (informal) 10²⁷ or 2⁹⁰ bytes.
    • We believe this is the first time a company has ever talked about a machine that can crunch through “brontobytes” of data. (The word reminds us of brontosaurus, the largest dinosaur.) And just how big is that? It's 1,000 Yottabytes, of course.2014 June 11, Julie Bort, “There's A New Word Being Used In The Computer Industry: ‘Brontobytes’”, in Business Insider
    Synonyms:
    ronnabyte

Questions about brontobytes

What is brontobytes the plural of?
Brontobytes is the plural of brontobyte.

Words near brontobytes in the dictionary

  1. brontide
  2. brontides
  3. bronto
  4. bronto-
  5. brontobyte
  6. brontobytes
  7. brontograph
  8. brontographs
  9. brontologies
  10. brontology
  11. brontomancy

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