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zettabyte

/ˈzɛtəbaɪt/

zettabyte noun: one sextillion (10²¹, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 exabytes.

Noun

zettabyte (plural zettabytes)

  1. One sextillion (10²¹, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 exabytes.
    • Cerberus Scientist: I'm sorry, sir. None of Normandy's surveillance feeds have been responding since Shepard went rogue.
      Illusive Man: I want it back. Retry the remote lockdown protocols.
      Cerberus Scientist: After our last attempt, EDI flooded our server with seven zettabytes of explicit images. I...2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Cronos Station
    • Conservative estimates put data produced in 2020 alone at 44 zettabytes.2015 January 2, Fiona Graham, “Look-ahead 2015: Fly into the future and other predictions”, in BBC News
  2. (informal) A zebibyte.

zettabyte meaning in Arabic and Malay

zettabyte in Arabic

270 or 1021 bytes
زِيْتَابَايْت ziytābāyt

zettabyte in Malay

270 or 1021 bytes
zetabait

Synonyms of zettabyte

Forms of zettabyte

pluralzettabytes

Origin of zettabyte

From zetta- + byte.

Questions about zettabyte

What does zettabyte mean?
Zettabyte means one sextillion (10²¹, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 exabytes.
What is zettabyte in Arabic?
Zettabyte in Arabic is زِيْتَابَايْت (ziytābāyt). See Zettabyte meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is zettabyte?
Zettabyte is a noun.
How do you pronounce zettabyte?
Zettabyte is pronounced /ˈzɛtəbaɪt/.
What is the plural of zettabyte?
The plural of zettabyte is zettabytes.

Words near zettabyte in the dictionary

  1. zetta-amperes
  2. zettaampere
  3. zettaamperes
  4. zettabit
  5. zettabits
  6. zettabyte
  7. zettabytes
  8. zettaflop
  9. zettaflops
  10. zettagram
  11. zettagrammes

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