petabyte en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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- /ˈpɛtəbaɪt/
Etymology
Etymology tree English peta- 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 petabyte From peta- + byte.
Meanings
- One quadrillion (10¹⁵, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 terabytes.
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(informal) A pebibyte.
The Hadron Collider has gone from producing 320 terabytes of data a week to a petabyte a second. In short, it has been said that the total amount of data created worldwide in 2011 was about one zetabyte^([sic]) (or 1,000,000 petabytes) and that this figure will increase by 50%–60% in each subsequent year.
2017, Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Higher Education under Late Capitalism, Springer, →ISBN, page 82:Instead, Fifield figured out how to “overlap” files inside of a Zip archive, allowing for compression rates far beyond those of a traditional archive—in his most impressive case, he managed to get a 46-megabyte file to compress 4.5 petabytes of data.
2019 July 10, Ernie Smith, “The Most Clever ‘Zip Bomb’ Ever Made Explodes a 46MB File to 4.5 Petabytes”, in VICE, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2024: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 dimensionally agnostic statistics.
2008 June 23, Chris Anderson, “The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete”, in WIRED, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 Feb 2016:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| petabytes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
terabyte (Previous) · exabyte (Next)
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Translations (25)
ko 페타바이트 (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · ja ペタバイト (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · ug پېتابايت (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · ru петаба́йт (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · cs petabyte (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · pl petabajt (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · fi petatavu (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · mk петабајт (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · el πεταμπάιτ (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · eo petabajto (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · pt petabyte (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · fr pétaoctet (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · ms petabait (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · ka პეტაბაიტი (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · el πεταδυφιοσυλλαβή (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · de Petabyte (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · ar بِيتَابَايْت (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · th เพตะไบต์ (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · cmn 拍字節 /拍字节 (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · cmn 拍它字節 /拍它字节 (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · cs petabajt (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · cmn PB (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · hu petabyte (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · nv są́ą́łtsohʼííłké (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) · eo petabitoko (1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes)