exabyte

English

Etymology

exa- + byte

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛksəbaɪt/

Noun

exabyte (plural exabytes)

  1. (computing) A unit of storage capacity, 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1018) bytes.
    • 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan, published 2020, page 4:
      Altogether, the human brain is estimated to hold something in the order of 200 exabytes of information.
    • 2019, Andreas Hepp, Deep Mediatization: Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies, Routledge, →ISBN:
      North American cloud traffic in 2015 measured 1.891 exabytes per year, in the Asia Pacific 908 exabytes per year, []
    • 2021, Giuseppe Arbia, quoting Eric Schmidt, Statistics, New Empiricism and Society in the Era of Big Data, Springer Nature, →ISBN, pages 4–5:
      In 2010, Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, stated: “There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days” (Schmidt, 2010). Schmidt's forecast, indeed, proved to be an underestimation.

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Czech

Alternative forms

Etymology

From English exabyte, as if exa- + byte.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɛksabajt]

Noun

exabyte m

  1. exabyte

Further reading

  • byte in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English exabyte.

Noun

exabyte m (plural exabytes)

  1. (computing) exabyte (one quintillion bytes)

Synonyms

  • Abbreviations: EB

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