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exabyte en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈɛksəbaɪt/

Etymology

Etymology tree English exa- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- Proto-Indo-European *-t Proto-Indo-European *bʰéydt Proto-Germanic *bītaną Proto-West Germanic *bītan Old English bītan Middle English biten English bite English byte English exabyte From exa- + byte.

Meanings

  1. One quintillion (10¹⁸, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 petabytes.
    • North American cloud traffic in 2015 measured 1.891 exabytes per year, in the Asia Pacific 908 exabytes per year, […] 2019, Andreas Hepp, Deep Mediatization: Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies, Routledge, →ISBN:
    • Altogether, the human brain is estimated to hold something in the order of 200 exabytes of information. 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan, published 2020, page 4:
    • In 2010, Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, stated: “There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days” (Schmidt, 2010). Schmidt's forecast, indeed, proved to be an underestimation. 2021, Giuseppe Arbia, quoting Eric Schmidt, Statistics, New Empiricism and Society in the Era of Big Data, Springer Nature, →ISBN, pages 4–5:
  2. (informal) An exbibyte.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
exabytes Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

zettabyte (Next) · petabyte (Previous)

Relateds

exabit · exbibit · exbibyte

Synonyms

EB

Translations (22)

el εξαδυφιοσυλλαβή (260 or 1018 bytes) · ja エクサバイト (260 or 1018 bytes) · pl eksabajt (260 or 1018 bytes) · ko 엑사바이트 (260 or 1018 bytes) · cs exabajt (260 or 1018 bytes) · cmn EB (260 or 1018 bytes) · th เอกซะไบต์ (260 or 1018 bytes) · pt exabyte (260 or 1018 bytes) · hu exabyte (260 or 1018 bytes) · ug ئېكسابايت (260 or 1018 bytes) · ka ექსაბაიტი (260 or 1018 bytes) · ar أَكْسَبايْت (260 or 1018 bytes) · cmn 艾字節 /艾字节 (260 or 1018 bytes) · ru эксаба́йт (260 or 1018 bytes) · ms eksabait (260 or 1018 bytes) · cs exabyte (260 or 1018 bytes) · eo eksabajto (260 or 1018 bytes) · el εξαμπάιτ (260 or 1018 bytes) · nv tsʼiiłtsohʼííłké (260 or 1018 bytes) · fi eksatavu (260 or 1018 bytes) · mk ексабајт (260 or 1018 bytes) · eo eksabitoko (260 or 1018 bytes)