petabyte

See also: Petabyte

English

Etymology

From peta- +‎ byte.

Noun

petabyte (plural petabytes)

1. (SI) One quadrillion (10¹⁵, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: PB.
2. (computing) 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes or 1024⁵, or 2⁵⁰. This capacity may be expressed unambiguously as a pebibyte. SI symbol: PiB, computing symbol: PB.

Coordinate terms

• Previous: terabyte
• Next: exabyte

Translations

1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes

• Arabic: بِيتَابَايْت m (bitabayt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (formal) 拍它字節／拍它字节 (pāitāzìjié), 拍它字节 (pāitāzìjié), (formal) 拍字節／拍字节, 拍字节 (pāizìjié), (common abbreviation, pronounced like English) PB (zh)

• Esperanto: petabajto, petabitoko
• Finnish: petatavu
• French: pétaoctet (fr) m
• Georgian: პეტაბაიტი (ṗeṭabaiṭi)
• German: Petabyte (de) n
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• Greek: πεταμπάιτ n (petampáit), πεταδυφιοσυλλαβή n (petadyfiosyllaví)
• Japanese: ペタバイト (petabaito)
• Korean: 페타바이트 (petabaiteu)
• Malay: petabait
• Navajo: są́ą́łtsohʼííłké
• Portuguese: petabyte (pt) m
• Russian: петаба́йт (ru) m (petabájt)
• Uyghur: پېتابايت (pëtabayt)

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English petabyte.

Noun

petabyte m (plural petabytes)

1. (computing) petabyte (one quadrillion bytes)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: PB, peta

Coordinate terms

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

Related terms

• petabit
• pebibyte