terabyte
pronunciation
How to pronounce terabyte in British English:
UK [ˈterəbaɪt]
How to pronounce terabyte in American English:
US [ˈtɛrəˌbaɪt]
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- Noun:
- a unit of information equal to a trillion (1,099,511,627,776) bytes or 1024 gigabytes
Word Origin
- terabyte (n.)
- by 1982, from tera- + byte.
Example
- 1. A terabyte of space makes deleting old files virtually unnecessary , for example .
- 2. The company has been building up the capacity to store huge amounts of digital data : a subsidiary called amazon s3 rents out temporary storage by the terabyte to other websites .
- 3. Over 1 terabyte of data managed every day : almost an 80 % increase in collected and centralised data from one year to the next .