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Definition of Terabyte

1. Noun. A unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes.

2. Noun. A unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes.

Definition of Terabyte

1. Noun. One trillion (1,000,000,000,000) bytes, as opposed to a tebibyte. SI symbol: TB. ¹

2. Noun. (computing colloquial) Imprecisely, a tebibyte or 1024⁴ (1,099,511,627,776) bytes. SI symbol: TiB, computing symbol: TB. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Terabyte

1. one trillion bytes [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Terabyte

tera-joule tera-joules tera-ohm tera-ohms tera-volt tera-volts tera-watt tera amp tera amps teraamp

teraamps terabase terabases terabit terabuck terabyte (current term) terabytes teraconic teraconic acid teracrylic

teracrylic acid teraelectron volt teraelectron volts teraelectronvolt teraelectronvolts teraflop teraflops teragram teragramme teragrammes

Literary usage of Terabyte

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web by David Weinberger (2002)
"If you wanted to get a laugh, you made a joke about needing a terabyte to store something you considered bloated—say, the new version of Windows or the ..."

2. The digital library: A Biography by Daniel Greenstein, Suzanne E. Thorin (2002)
"... includes tape and disk base storage for all types of data, in 1- to 2- terabyte disk caches and tape libraries that have a 300-terabyte total capacity. ..."

3. SAS(R) 9.1 Companion for Windows by SAS Institute (2004)
"See also gigabyte, megabyte, terabyte. library engine an engine that accesses ... See also gigabyte, kilobyte, terabyte. member a SAS file in a SAS library. ..."

4. Environmental Information for Naval Warfare by National Academy of Engineering, Inc NetLibrary (2003)
"Attached storage units are now in the terabyte range. In practical terms, a year's worth of METOC observations and bathymetric images could be stored on one ..."

5. U. S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's ...edited by Christopher Cox edited by Christopher Cox (1999)
""terabyte refers to a trillion bytes of data. 230 "ASCI Blue Pacific can bring IBM on first position in "TOP500," Primeur Analysis, October 28, 1998, ..."

6. Public Access to Government Information in the 21st Century: Hearings Before by DIANE Publishing Company (1998)
"... 100-million transistor microprocessors running at gigahertz clock speeds, and near-terabyte hard drives. Ignoring the specific numbers that we techies ..."

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