Dictionary

yottabyte en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈjɒtəbaɪt/
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Etymology

Etymology tree English yotta- 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 yottabyte From yotta- + byte.

Meanings

1. One septillion (10²⁴, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 zettabytes.
   • […] the Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes (10²⁴ bytes) of data. (A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.) 2012 March 15, James Bamford, “The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)”, in Wired, →ISSN:
2. (informal) A yobibyte.

Forms

Coordinates

ronnabyte (Next) · brontobyte (Next) · zettabyte (Previous)

Relateds

yobibyte · yottabit · yobibit

Synonyms

YB

Translations (19)

ko 요타바이트 (280 or 1024 bytes) · el γιοτταμπάιτ (280 or 1024 bytes) · ar يَوتَابَايْت (280 or 1024 bytes) · eo jotabitoko (280 or 1024 bytes) · ms yotabait (280 or 1024 bytes) · cmn 堯字節 /尧字节 (280 or 1024 bytes) · fi jottatavu (280 or 1024 bytes) · ja ヨタバイト (280 or 1024 bytes) · pt yottabyte (280 or 1024 bytes) · eo jotabajto (280 or 1024 bytes) · nv tʼéíłtsohʼííłké (280 or 1024 bytes) · ug يوتتابايت (280 or 1024 bytes) · ka იოტაბაიტი (280 or 1024 bytes) · ru йоттаба́йт (280 or 1024 bytes) · cmn YB (280 or 1024 bytes) · pl jottabajt (280 or 1024 bytes) · el γιοτταδυφιοσυλλαβή (280 or 1024 bytes) · de Yottabyte (280 or 1024 bytes) · mk јотабајт (280 or 1024 bytes)