geopbyte
geopbyte noun: roughly 10³⁰ bytes; 1024 brontobytes.
Noun
geopbyte (plural geopbytes)
- Roughly 10³⁰ bytes; 1024 brontobytes.
- I don't remember where I found this:[…]1000 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte[…]Geopbyte: Not sure why this term was created. It's doubtful that anyone alive today will ever see a Geopbyte hard drive.2009 June 27, NightFire [comment author], “WinXP Overhaul Guide: How to Make It Look Like Vista, Run Like Lightning, and Stay Productive, Fast & Smooth”, in Instructables, comment
- Geopbyte: a geopbyte is 1,024 brontobytes, which is too much data to even comprehend.2014, John G. Iannarelli, Michael O'Shaughnessy, Information Governance and Security Protecting and Managing Your Company's Proprietary Information, page 35
- Synonyms:
- quettabyte
Examples of geopbyte in a sentence
- Any substantial company that doesn't take advantage of its own geopbytes of available data is in danger of eventual extinction.2015, Jenny Dearborn, Data Driven, page 41:
- Chapter 16, “Healthcare Analytics”: Covering data analytics/big data/population management; effectively managing the geopbytes of data out there lurking in our electronic records […]2015, Patricia Sengstack, Charles Boicey, Mastering Informatics: A Healthcare Handbook for Success, page 18:
- Some stakeholders in the field are already starting to talk about the even larger dimensions of brontobytes and geopbytes.2015, Marcel Kunze, “Big Data Technologies”, in Lucio Grandinetti, G. R Joubert, M. Kunze, editor, Big Data and High Performance Computing...
- Such a massive increase in the usage of smart devices will end up generating the data up to Geopbytes (1030)^([sic]) even.2022, Pooja Anand, Yashwant Singh, Harvinder Singh, Mohammad Dahman Alshehri, Sudeep Tanwar, “SALT: transfer learning‑based threat model...
Synonyms of geopbyte
Forms of geopbyte
| plural | geopbytes |
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Origin of geopbyte
The term was in use on English-language websites by 2009 (see quotation below). Before that, it had begun to appear on Spanish-language sites by 2007. The earliest known use is in a February 2006 edit to Spanish Wikipedia's "Byte" article by an anonymous contributor, whose immediately preceding edits to another article make it clear that the term was inspired by Korean 겁 (劫, geop), presumably in the sense "kalpa" (an extremely long span of time in Hindu and Buddhist chronology).
Questions about geopbyte
- What does geopbyte mean?
- Geopbyte means roughly 10³⁰ bytes; 1024 brontobytes.
- How do you use geopbyte in a sentence?
- Any substantial company that doesn't take advantage of its own geopbytes of available data is in danger of eventual extinction.
- What part of speech is geopbyte?
- Geopbyte is a noun.
- What is the plural of geopbyte?
- The plural of geopbyte is geopbytes.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: geopbyte (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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