brontobyte
English
editEtymology
editbronto- + byte, in reference to the brontosaurus, a very large dinosaur.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbrontobyte (plural brontobytes)
- (informal, computing) 1027 or 290 bytes.
- Synonym: (standard) ronnabyte
- 2014 June 11, Julie Bort, “There's A New Word Being Used In The Computer Industry: ‘Brontobytes’”, in Business Insider[1]:
- We believe this is the first time a company has ever talked about a machine that can crunch through “brontobytes” of data. (The word reminds us of brontosaurus, the largest dinosaur.) And just how big is that? It's 1,000 Yottabytes, of course.
Usage notes
editBronto- is not a standard prefix in the metric International System of Units.
Coordinate terms
edit- Previous: yottabyte