terabyte

noun

tera·​byte ˈter-ə-ˌbīt How to pronounce terabyte (audio)
: 1024 gigabytes or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes
also : one trillion bytes

Examples of terabyte in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Over four years, Amazon turned over millions of pages of internal documents and more than 100 terabytes of data, according to a person familiar with the investigation who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the scope of the probe. Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023 Additionally, the memory bandwidth is boosted to 8 terabytes per second from the H200’s 4.8 TB/s. Smaller Numbers, Faster Chips Chipmaking technology did some of the job in making Blackwell, but its what the GPU does with the transistors that really makes the difference. IEEE Spectrum, 18 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for terabyte 

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Word History

Etymology

tera- + byte

First Known Use

1984, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of terabyte was in 1984

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“Terabyte.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terabyte. Accessed 31 May. 2024.

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terabyte

noun
tera·​byte ˈter-ə-ˌbīt How to pronounce terabyte (audio)
: 1024 gigabytes
also : one trillion bytes
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