yottabyte

yottabyte

See also: Yottabyte

English

Etymology

yotta- +‎ byte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɒtəbaɪt/

Noun

yottabyte (plural yottabytes)

1. (computing) One septillion (10²⁴) bytes. SI symbol: YB.
   • 2012 March 15, James Bamford, “The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)”, in Wired‎, ISSN 1059-1028:

     […] 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.)

Coordinate terms

• Previous: zettabyte
• Next: ronnabyte, brontobyte (informal, non-SI)

Translations

2⁸⁰ or 10²⁴ bytes

Esperanto: jotabajto, jotabitoko Georgian: იოტაბაიტი (ioṭabaiṭi) German: Yottabyte (de) n Greek: γιοτταμπάιτ n (giottampáit), γιοτταδυφιοσυλλαβή n (giottadyfiosyllaví) Macedonian: јотабајт m (jotabajt) Malay: yotabait Navajo: tʼéíłtsohʼííłké Portuguese: yottabyte (pt) m Russian: йоттаба́йт (ru) m (jottabájt) Uyghur: يوتتابايت‎ (yottabayt)

See also

• yobibyte

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English yottabyte.

Noun

yottabyte m (plural yottabytes)

1. (computing) yottabyte (one septillion bytes)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: YB

Coordinate terms

• Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

Related terms

• yottabit
• yobibyte