zettabyte en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈzɛtəbaɪt/
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Afroasiatic *sṗɣ? Proto-Semitic *šabʕ-bor.? Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ Proto-Italic *septəm Latin septemder. ▲ Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ Proto-Hellenic *heptə́ Ancient Greek ἑπτᾰ́ (heptắ)der. English zetta- 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 zettabyte From zetta- + byte.
Meanings
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One sextillion (10²¹, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 exabytes.
Cerberus Scientist: I'm sorry, sir. None of Normandy's surveillance feeds have been responding since Shepard went rogue. Illusive Man: I want it back. Retry the remote lockdown protocols. Cerberus Scientist: After our last attempt, EDI flooded our server with seven zettabytes of explicit images. I think she was making a joke.
2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Cronos Station:Conservative estimates put data produced in 2020 alone at 44 zettabytes.
2015 January 2, Fiona Graham, “Look-ahead 2015: Fly into the future and other predictions”, in BBC News:For such quantities, it is necessary to introduce a further unit: the zettabyte which corresponds to 1000 exabytes. The International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts the world's data will grow to 175 zettabytes in 2025.
2021, Giuseppe Arbia, Statistics, New Empiricism and Society in the Era of Big Data, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 5:
- (informal) A zebibyte.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| zettabytes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
exabyte (Previous) · yottabyte (Next)
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Synonyms
Translations (18)
ja ゼタバイト (270 or 1021 bytes) · ms zetabait (270 or 1021 bytes) · de Zettabyte (270 or 1021 bytes) · eo zetabajto (270 or 1021 bytes) · pl zettabajt (270 or 1021 bytes) · ug زېتتابايت (270 or 1021 bytes) · eo zetabitoko (270 or 1021 bytes) · cmn ZB (270 or 1021 bytes) · ja ゼッタバイト (270 or 1021 bytes) · mk зетабајт (270 or 1021 bytes) · ka ზეტაბაიტი (270 or 1021 bytes) · cmn 澤字節 /泽字节 (270 or 1021 bytes) · nv bííłtsohʼííłké (270 or 1021 bytes) · ru зеттаба́йт (270 or 1021 bytes) · fi tsettatavu (270 or 1021 bytes) · ar زِيْتَابَايْت (270 or 1021 bytes) · ko 제타바이트 (270 or 1021 bytes) · pt zettabyte (270 or 1021 bytes)