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petabytes

petabytes is the plural of petabyte.

Meaning of petabyte

Noun

petabyte (plural petabytes)

  1. One quadrillion (10¹⁵, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 terabytes.
  2. (informal) A pebibyte.
    • As we moved along that progression, we went from the folder analogy to the file cabinet analogy to the library analogy to — well, at petabytes we ran out of organizational analogies.
      At the petabyte scale, information is not a matter of simple three- and four-dimensional taxonomy and order but of...2008 June 23, Chris Anderson, “The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete”, in WIRED, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2016

Questions about petabytes

What is petabytes the plural of?
Petabytes is the plural of petabyte.

Words near petabytes in the dictionary

  1. petabecquerel
  2. petabecquerels
  3. petabit
  4. petabits
  5. petabyte
  6. petabytes
  7. Petac
  8. petaflop
  9. petaflops
  10. petagram
  11. petagramme

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