petabyte

[ pet-uh-bahyt ]

/ ˈpɛt əˌbaɪt /

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noun

250bytes, or 1,024 terabytes.

(loosely) 1015 or a million billion bytes. Symbol: PB

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Origin of petabyte

peta- + byte

Words nearby petabyte

pestle, pesto, pesty, pet, peta-, petabyte, Petach Tikva, petahertz, Pétain, petal, petaliferous

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How to use petabyte in a sentence

It’d cost something like $1 trillion dollars to write a petabyte of data in DNA.
Each of These Microscopic Glass Beads Stores an Image Encoded on a Strand of DNA|Jason Dorrier|June 20, 2021|Singularity Hub
Its on-chip memory has increased from 18 gigabytes to 40 gigabytes, and the rate it shuttles information to and from said memory has gone from 9 petabytes per second to 20 petabytes per second.
The World’s Biggest AI Chip Now Comes Stock With 2.6 Trillion Transistors|Jason Dorrier|April 25, 2021|Singularity Hub
They are processing hundreds of petabytes of data and moving toward terabytes.
The Metaverse Is Coming. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the Fusion of Virtual and Physical Worlds|Eben Shapiro|April 18, 2021|Time
Malicious code in one update of a trusted software provider was the Trojan horse that enabled access to petabytes of private data across 18,000 organizations, including Fortune 500s and government entities.
Data is the world’s most valuable (and vulnerable) resource|Annie Siebert|March 4, 2021|TechCrunch

The insights gained from the vast terabytes and petabytes of data companies collect are critical to innovation and competitive advantage.
E-learning? There’s a database for that. Real-time data? That, too|Jason Sparapani|August 20, 2020|MIT Technology Review

British Dictionary definitions for petabyte

petabyte

/ (ˈpɛtəˌbaɪt) /

noun

computing 10 15 or 2 50 bytes

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Scientific definitions for petabyte

petabyte

[ pĕt′ə-bīt ]

A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 terabytes (250 bytes).

One quadrillion bytes. See Note at megabyte.