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EB

EB is the abbreviation of exabyte.

EB is the abbreviation of exbibyte.

EB is the initialism of eastbound.

EB is the initialism of elementary body.

EB is the initialism of Epstein-Barr virus.

EB is the initialism of epidermolysis bullosa.

Meaning of exabyte

Noun

exabyte (plural exabytes)

  1. One quintillion (10¹⁸, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 petabytes.
    • Altogether, the human brain is estimated to hold something in the order of 200 exabytes of information.2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan, published 2020, page 4
  2. (informal) An exbibyte.

Meaning of exbibyte

Noun

exbibyte (plural exbibytes)

  1. Strictly, 2⁶⁰ (1024⁶, 1,152,921,504,606,846,976) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) pebibytes, as opposed to an exabyte.
    Synonyms:
    EiB

Symbol capitalized: Eb

Eb

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Ebit.

Synonyms of EB

Forms of EB

pluralEBs

Questions about EB

What is EB the abbreviation of?
EB is the abbreviation of exabyte.
What part of speech is EB?
EB is a symbol.

Words near EB in the dictionary

  1. EAWs
  2. EAZ
  3. eazily
  4. EAZs
  5. eazy
  6. EB
  7. eba
  8. EBacc
  9. EBaccs
  10. ebalzotan
  11. ebanking

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: EB (page history and authors); Eb (page history and authors); exabyte (page history and authors); exbibyte (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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