brontobyte en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /ˈbɹɒntəbaɪt/
Etymology
From bronto- + byte, in reference to the brontosaurus, a very large dinosaur.
Meanings
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(informal) 10²⁷ or 2⁹⁰ bytes.
We believe this is the first time a company has ever talked about a machine that can crunch through “brontobytes” of data. (The word reminds us of brontosaurus, the largest dinosaur.) And just how big is that? It's 1,000 Yottabytes, of course.
2014 June 11, Julie Bort, “There's A New Word Being Used In The Computer Industry: ‘Brontobytes’”, in Business Insider:In a world awash in brontobytes of data, cutting your data requirements in half can dramatically reduce the demands that data management is placing upon your business.
2014, Christopher Surdak, Data Crush […] , AMACOM, →ISBN, page 174:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| brontobytes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
quettabyte (Next) · geopbyte (Next) · yottabyte (Previous)
Relateds
hella- (other proposed prefixes for 1027) · xenna- (other proposed prefixes for 1027) · ronna- (official prefix for 1027)