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geopbyte

geopbyte noun: roughly 10³⁰ bytes; 1024 brontobytes.

Noun

geopbyte (plural geopbytes)

  1. (nonstandard) 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

pluralgeopbytes

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.

Words near geopbyte in the dictionary

  1. geoparsing
  2. geoparticle
  3. geopathic
  4. geopathology
  5. geopathy
  6. geopbyte
  7. geopbytes
  8. geopedologic
  9. geopedological
  10. geopedology
  11. geopetal

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