terabyte

English

Etymology

tera- +‎ byte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɹəbaɪt/

Noun

terabyte (plural terabytes)

1. One trillion (10¹², or 1,000,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: TB.
2. (computing, colloquial) Imprecisely, a tebibyte or 1024⁴ (1,099,511,627,776) bytes. SI symbol: TiB, computing symbol: TB.

Coordinate terms

• previous: gigabyte
• next: petabyte

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 (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)
• 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

1. terabyte

Further reading

• byte in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

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