zettabyte

See also: Zettabyte

English

Etymology

zetta- +‎ byte

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈzɛtəbaɪt/

Noun

zettabyte (plural zettabytes)

(computing) One sextillion (10²¹) bytes. SI symbol: ZB.
- 2015 January 2, Fiona Graham, “Look-ahead 2015: Fly into the future and other predictions”, in BBC News‎:
  Conservative estimates put data produced in 2020 alone at 44 zettabytes.
- 2021, Giuseppe Arbia, Statistics, New Empiricism and Society in the Era of Big Data, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 5:
  For such quantities, it is necessary to introduce a further unit: the zettabyte which corresponds to 1000 exabytes. The International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts the world's data will grow to 175 zettabytes in 2025.

Coordinate terms

Previous: exabyte
Next: yottabyte

Translations

2⁷⁰ or 10²¹ bytes

Esperanto: zetabajto, zetabitoko
Georgian: ზეტაბაიტი (zeṭabaiṭi)
German: Zettabyte (de) n
Macedonian: зетабајт m (zetabajt)
Malay: zetabait
Navajo: bííłtsohʼííłké
Portuguese: zettabyte (pt) m
Russian: зеттаба́йт (ru) m (zɛttabájt)
Uyghur: زېتتابايت‎ (zëttabayt)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English zettabyte.

Noun

zettabyte m (plural zettabytes)

(computing) zettabyte (one sixtillion bytes)

Synonyms

Abbreviations: ZB

Coordinate terms

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

Related terms

zettabit
zebibyte

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English zettabyte.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Spain) /θetaˈbait/ [θe.t̪aˈβ̞ai̯t̪]
IPA^(key): (Latin America) /setaˈbait/ [se.t̪aˈβ̞ai̯t̪]
Rhymes: -ait

Noun

zettabyte m (plural zettabytes)

zettabyte

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.