zettabyte
See also: Zettabyte
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zettabyte (plural zettabytes)
- (computing) One sextillion (1021, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 exabytes.
- 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Cronos Station:
- 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.
- 2015 January 2, Fiona Graham, “Look-ahead 2015: Fly into the future and other predictions”, in BBC News[1]:
- Conservative estimates put data produced in 2020 alone at 44 zettabytes.
- 2021, Giuseppe Arbia, Statistics, New Empiricism and Society in the Era of Big Data, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 5:
- 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.
- (computing, informal) a zebibyte.
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270 or 1021 bytes
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Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English zettabyte.
Noun edit
zettabyte m (plural zettabytes)
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- Abbreviations: ZB
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- Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte
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Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English zettabyte.
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- IPA(key): (Spain) /θetaˈbait/ [θe.t̪aˈβ̞ai̯t̪]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /setaˈbait/ [se.t̪aˈβ̞ai̯t̪]
- Rhymes: -ait
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zettabyte m (plural zettabytes)
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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.