terabyte

English

Etymology

From tera- +‎ byte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɹəˌbaɪt/, [ˈtʰɛɹəˌbaɪ̯t]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: tera‧byte

Noun

terabyte (plural terabytes)

1. One trillion (10¹², or 1,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 gigabytes.
2. (computing, informal) A tebibyte.

Synonyms

• TB

Coordinate terms

• Previous: gigabyte
• Next: petabyte

Related terms

• tebibit
• tebibyte
• terabit

Translations

1,000,000,000,000 bytes

• Arabic: تِيرَابَايْت m (tirabayt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (formal) 太字節 / 太字节 (tàizìjié), (common abbreviation, pronounced like English) TB (zh)

• Czech: terabajt m, terabyte m
• Esperanto: terabajto, terabitoko
• Finnish: teratavu (fi)
• French: téraoctet (fr) m
• Georgian: ტერაბაიტი (ṭerabaiṭi)
• German: Terabyte (de) n
• Greek: τεραμπάιτ (el) n (terampáit), τεραδυφιοσυλλαβή n (teradyfiosyllaví)
• Hungarian: terabyte (hu)
• Japanese: テラバイト (ja) (terabaito)
• Korean: 테라바이트 (terabaiteu)
• Macedonian: терабајт m (terabajt)
• Malay: terabait
• Navajo: dlaałtsohʼííłké
• Polish: terabajt (pl) m
• Portuguese: terabyte (pt) m
• Russian: тераба́йт (ru) m (terabájt)
• Thai: เทระไบต์ (th)
• Ukrainian: тераба́йт m (terabájt)
• Uyghur: تېرابايت (tërabayt)

Anagrams

• Attebery

Czech

Alternative forms

• terabajt

Etymology

Derived from English terabyte, as if tera- +‎ byte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɛrabajt]

Noun

terabyte m inan

1. terabyte

Declension

Declension of terabyte (hard masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	terabyte	terabyty
genitive	terabytu	terabytů
dative	terabytu	terabytům
accusative	terabyte	terabyty
vocative	terabyte	terabyty
locative	terabytu	terabytech
instrumental	terabytem	terabyty

Further reading

• “byte”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English terabyte.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌtɛɾaˈbajt(ʃ)(i)/

Noun

terabyte m (plural terabytes)

1. (computing) terabyte (one trillion bytes)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: TB, tera

Coordinate terms

• Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

Related terms

• terabit
• tebibyte