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English
Etymology
From bronto- + byte, in reference to the brontosaurus, a very large dinosaur.
Pronunciation
Noun
brontobyte (plural brontobytes)
- (informal, computing) 1027 or 290 bytes.
- Synonym: (standard) ronnabyte
2014 June 11, Julie Bort, “There's A New Word Being Used In The Computer Industry: ‘Brontobytes’”, in Business Insider:We believe this is the first time a company has ever talked about a machine that can crunch through “brontobytes” of data. (The word reminds us of brontosaurus, the largest dinosaur.) And just how big is that? It's 1,000 Yottabytes, of course.
2014, Christopher Surdak, Data Crush , AMACOM, →ISBN, page 174:In a world awash in brontobytes of data, cutting your data requirements in half can dramatically reduce the demands that data management is placing upon your business.
Usage notes
Bronto- is not a standard prefix in the metric International System of Units.
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