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exabyte

/ˈɛksəbaɪt/

exabyte noun: one quintillion (10¹⁸, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 petabytes.

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
    • North American cloud traffic in 2015 measured 1.891 exabytes per year, in the Asia Pacific 908 exabytes per year, […]2019, Andreas Hepp, Deep Mediatization: Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies, Routledge, →ISBN
  2. (informal) An exbibyte.

exabyte meaning in Arabic, Malay and Thai

exabyte in Arabic

260 or 1018 bytes
أَكْسَبايْت ʔaksabāyt

exabyte in Malay

260 or 1018 bytes
eksabait

exabyte in Thai

260 or 1018 bytes
เอกซะไบต์

Synonyms of exabyte

Forms of exabyte

pluralexabytes

Origin of exabyte

From exa- + byte.

Questions about exabyte

What does exabyte mean?
Exabyte means one quintillion (10¹⁸, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 petabytes.
What is exabyte in Arabic?
Exabyte in Arabic is أَكْسَبايْت (ʔaksabāyt). See Exabyte meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is exabyte?
Exabyte is a noun.
How do you pronounce exabyte?
Exabyte is pronounced /ˈɛksəbaɪt/.
What is the plural of exabyte?
The plural of exabyte is exabytes.

Words near exabyte in the dictionary

  1. ex.
  2. ex. gr.
  3. exa-
  4. exabit
  5. exabits
  6. exabyte
  7. exabytes
  8. exacerbate
  9. exacerbated
  10. exacerbates
  11. exacerbating

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