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petabyte

  • /ˈpɛtəbaɪt/

noun petabytes

  1. One quadrillion (10¹⁵, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 terabytes.
  2. informal A pebibyte. As we moved along that progression, we went from the folder analogy to the file cabinet analogy to the library analogy to — well, at petabytes we ran out of organizational analogies. At the petabyte scale, information is not a matter of simple three- and four-dimensional taxonomy and order but of di

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noun 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes

한국어페타바이트 petabaiteu
日本語ペタバイト petabaito
中文拍它字節 /拍它字节 pāitāzìjié, 拍字節 /拍字节 pāizìjié, PB
Portuguêspetabyte
Françaispétaoctet
DeutschPetabyte
Ελληνικάπεταμπάιτ petampáit, πεταδυφιοσυλλαβή petadyfiosyllaví
Русскийпетаба́йт petabájt
العربيةبِيتَابَايْت bitabayt

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@misc{petabyte_2026,
  title = {petabyte},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/petabyte},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}