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googolbyte

googolbyte noun: a unit of digital storage equal to a googol (10¹⁰⁰) bytes.

Noun

googolbyte (plural googolbytes)

  1. (informal) A unit of digital storage equal to a googol (10¹⁰⁰) bytes.
    • Where does the enterprise store its gigabytes, terabytes and googolbytes?1999 March 1, InfoWorld, volume 21, number 9
    • My system has one Googolbyte of RAM and
      2 Googolplexbytes of disk space.2006, Andreas Zeller, Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging, page 98

Forms of googolbyte

pluralgoogolbytes

Origin of googolbyte

From googol + byte.

Questions about googolbyte

What does googolbyte mean?
Googolbyte means a unit of digital storage equal to a googol (10¹⁰⁰) bytes.
What part of speech is googolbyte?
Googolbyte is a noun.
What is the plural of googolbyte?
The plural of googolbyte is googolbytes.

Words near googolbyte in the dictionary

  1. googly-eyed
  2. googly-moogly
  3. googob
  4. googobs
  5. googol
  6. googolbyte
  7. googolbytes
  8. googolduplex
  9. googolfold
  10. googolgon
  11. googolgons

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