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

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Microsoft 365’s family plan comes with 6 terabytes of storage, for example, while Google One’s premium plan offers 2 TB. Justin Pot, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2024 This can culminate in upwards of a hundred terabytes of data in the form of images per day. Carlos Melendez, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024 This Amazon tablet has 64 gigabytes on its own, and with the addition of a special SD card, there’s up to 1 terabyte. Alyssa Grabinski, People.com, 2 Dec. 2024 The artificial intelligence industry as well as quantum and supercomputers often need petabytes, not gigabytes or even terabytes, of information storage. Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for terabyte 

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 22 Dec. 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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