yottabyte
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjɒtəbaɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
yottabyte (plural yottabytes)
- (computing) One septillion (1024, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 zettabytes.
- 2012 March 15, James Bamford, “The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)”, in Wired, →ISSN:
- […] the Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes (1024 bytes) of data. (A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.)
- (computing, informal) a yobibyte.
Synonyms
Coordinate terms
- Previous: zettabyte
- Next: ronnabyte, brontobyte (informal, non-SI)
Related terms
Translations
280 or 1024 bytes
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Portuguese
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English yottabyte.
Noun
yottabyte m (plural yottabytes)
Synonyms
- Abbreviations: YB
Coordinate terms
- Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte