exabyte
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exabyte (plural exabytes)
- (computing) One quintillion (1018, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 petabytes.
- 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan, published 2020, page 4:
- Altogether, the human brain is estimated to hold something in the order of 200 exabytes of information.
- 2021, Giuseppe Arbia, quoting Eric Schmidt, Statistics, New Empiricism and Society in the Era of Big Data, Springer Nature, →ISBN, pages 4–5:
- 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.
- (computing, informal) a exbibyte.
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260 or 1018 bytes
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Derived from English exabyte, as if exa- + byte.
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exabyte m inan
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- byte in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
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Unadapted borrowing from English exabyte.
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exabyte m (plural exabytes)
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- Abbreviations: EB
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- Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte