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hellabyte

hellabyte noun: 10²⁷ or 2⁹⁰ bytes.

Noun

hellabyte (plural hellabytes)

  1. (informal, nonstandard, rare) 10²⁷ or 2⁹⁰ bytes.
    • Now imagine constructing something like that for 100 arguments. Your routine would run into the millions of hellabytes.2010 July 28, Glenn Knickerbocker, “Re: Avoiding interpret?”, in comp.lang.rexx (Usenet), message-ID <MrGdnVh2XfvTLs3RnZ2dnUVZ_sOdnZ2d@bestweb.net>
    • > I have a few episodes on one of my hard drives...downloading some more / > now...[…]I've had this very intention ever since the news of Cannell's death reminded me of how much I loved TRF [The Rockford Files]. Picked up another hard drive with hellabyte capacity. ;^)2010 October 5, Wanda, “Re: OT - RIP Stephen J Cannell”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.la-lakers (Usenet), message-ID <NJadnd2ZPr2LtzbRnZ2dnUVZ_vmdnZ2d@earthlink.com>

Examples of hellabyte in a sentence

  • At these rates of growth, within the next decade or two, the human race could well be sitting on top of more than 1 × 10²⁷ bytes of data—that’s a whole hellabyte.2012, Florida State University College of Law, Florida State University Law Review, volume 39, pages 652–653:
  • In response both to the rapid growth of data and the proliferation of terms, some have suggested that we simply use “hellabyte,” for “hell of a lot of bytes.”2014, Joe Arnold, members of the SwiftStack team, OpenStack Swift: Using, Administering, and Developing for Swift Object Storage, O’Reilly...

Synonyms of hellabyte

Forms of hellabyte

pluralhellabytes

Origin of hellabyte

From hella- + byte.

Questions about hellabyte

What does hellabyte mean?
Hellabyte means 10²⁷ or 2⁹⁰ bytes.
How do you use hellabyte in a sentence?
At these rates of growth, within the next decade or two, the human race could well be sitting on top of more than 1 × 10²⁷ bytes of data—that’s a whole hellabyte.
What part of speech is hellabyte?
Hellabyte is a noun.
What is the plural of hellabyte?
The plural of hellabyte is hellabytes.

Words near hellabyte in the dictionary

  1. hella-
  2. hellaballoo
  3. hellaballoos
  4. hellabaloo
  5. hellabaloos
  6. hellabyte
  7. hellabytes
  8. hellacious
  9. hellaciously
  10. hellaciousness
  11. hellacool

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