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petascale

petascale adjective: a metric for objects on the scale of quadrillions (10¹⁵ or 1,000,000,000,000,000) of elements. Most often used for computer systems; a petascale computer system operates at speeds measured in petaflops and has memory measured in petabytes.

Adjective

petascale (not comparable)

  1. A metric for objects on the scale of quadrillions (10¹⁵ or 1,000,000,000,000,000) of elements. Most often used for computer systems; a petascale computer system operates at speeds measured in petaflops and has memory measured in petabytes.

Origin of petascale

From peta- + scale.

Questions about petascale

What does petascale mean?
Petascale means a metric for objects on the scale of quadrillions (10¹⁵ or 1,000,000,000,000,000) of elements. Most often used for computer systems; a petascale computer system operates at speeds measured in petaflops and has memory measured in petabytes.
What part of speech is petascale?
Petascale is an adjective.

Words near petascale in the dictionary

  1. petaries
  2. petarrah
  3. petarrahs
  4. petars
  5. petary
  6. petascale
  7. PETase
  8. petasecond
  9. petaseconds
  10. PETases
  11. petasi

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