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Definition of Petabyte
1. Noun. A unit of information equal to 1000 terabytes or 10^15 bytes.
Generic synonyms: Computer Memory Unit
Terms within: Tb, Terabyte
Group relationships: Eb, Exabyte
2. Noun. A unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 bytes.
Generic synonyms: Computer Memory Unit
Terms within: Tb, Tebibyte, Terabyte, Tib
Group relationships: Eb, Eib, Exabyte, Exbibyte
Definition of Petabyte
1. Noun. (context: SI) One quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: PB. ¹
2. Noun. (computing) 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes or 10245, or 250. This capacity may be expressed unambiguously as a pebibyte. SI symbol: PiB, computing symbol: PB. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Petabyte
1. one quadrillion bytes [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Petabyte
Literary usage of Petabyte
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the U. S. Geological Survey Global Change Research Forum edited by John A. Kelmelis, Mitchell Snow (1994)
"A petabyte. I really don't know how many that is. All I know is that it's a lot
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