terabyte

English

Etymology

tera- +‎ byte

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.

Translations

1,000,000,000,000 bytes

• Arabic: تِيرَابَايْت m (tirabayt)
• Chinese:

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

• Esperanto: terabajto, terabitoko
• Finnish: teratavu
• French: téraoctet (fr) m
• Georgian: ტერაბაიტი (ṭerabaiṭi)
• German: Terabyte (de) n
• Greek: τεραμπάιτ n (terampáit), τεραδυφιοσυλλαβή n (teradyfiosyllaví)
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• Japanese: テラバイト (terabaito)
• Korean: 테라바이트 (terabaiteu)
• Malay: terabait
• Navajo: dlaałtsohʼííłké
• Portuguese: terabyte (pt) m
• Russian: тераба́йт (ru) m (terabájt)
• Thai: เทระไบต์
• Uyghur: تېرابايت (tërabayt)

See also

• previous: gigabyte
• next: petabyte

References

• The IEC explanation of its definitions

Anagrams

• Attebery

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English terabyte.

Pronunciation

• 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