exabyte

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English exa-

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 exabyte

From exa- + byte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛksəbaɪt/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

exabyte (plural exabytes)

1. (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.

   • 2019, Andreas Hepp, Deep Mediatization: Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies‎^[1], Routledge, →ISBN:

     North American cloud traffic in 2015 measured 1.891 exabytes per year, in the Asia Pacific 908 exabytes per year, […]

   • 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.

2. (computing, informal) An exbibyte.

Synonyms

• EB

Coordinate terms

• Previous: petabyte
• Next: zettabyte

Related terms

• exabit
• exbibit
• exbibyte

Translations

2⁶⁰ or 10¹⁸ bytes

• Arabic: أَكْسَبايْت m (ʔaksabāyt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (formal) 艾字節 / 艾字节 (àizìjié), (common abbreviation, pronounced like English) EB

• Czech: exabyte m, exabajt m
• Esperanto: eksabajto, eksabitoko
• Finnish: eksatavu (fi)
• Georgian: ექსაბაიტი (eksabaiṭi)
• Greek: εξαμπάιτ (exampáit), εξαδυφιοσυλλαβή (exadyfiosyllaví)
• Hungarian: exabyte (hu)
• Japanese: エクサバイト (ekusabaito)
• Korean: 엑사바이트 (eksabaiteu)
• Macedonian: ексабајт m (eksabajt)
• Malay: eksabait
• Navajo: tsʼiiłtsohʼííłké
• Polish: eksabajt (pl) m
• Portuguese: exabyte (pt) m
• Russian: эксаба́йт (ru) m (ɛksabájt)
• Thai: เอกซะไบต์
• Uyghur: ئېكسابايت (ëksabayt)

Czech

Alternative forms

• exabajt

Etymology

Derived from English exabyte, as if exa- +‎ byte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛɡzabajt]

Noun

exabyte m inan

1. exabyte

Declension

Declension of exabyte (hard masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	exabyte	exabyty
genitive	exabytu	exabytů
dative	exabytu	exabytům
accusative	exabyte	exabyty
vocative	exabyte	exabyty
locative	exabytu	exabytech
instrumental	exabytem	exabyty

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

English exa-

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 exabyteubor.

Portuguese exabyte

Unadapted borrowing from English exabyte.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ek.saˈbi.t͡ʃi/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ik.sɐˈbi.tɨ/ [ik.sɐˈβi.tɨ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ik.sɐˈbi.tɨ/ [ik.sɐˈβi.tɨ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ik.sɐˈbi.tɨ/

Noun

exabyte m (plural exabytes)

1. (computing) exabyte (one quintillion bytes)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: EB

Coordinate terms

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

Related terms

• exabit
• exbibyte

Further reading

• “exabyte”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026