terabyte

noun

tera·​byte ˈter-ə-ˌbīt 

: 1024 gigabytes or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes

also : one trillion bytes

Examples of terabyte in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

According to court papers, the case took a long time as the parties produced extensive evidence, including more than 910,000 pages of documents and multiple terabytes of click data from Google, and participated in six mediation sessions before four different mediators. —Jonathan Stempel, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2025

So far the project’s dataset has more than 8 terabytes of information so the model can run on about 55 billion parameters (the variables with which an LLM makes a prediction output, like neurons that synapse or connect in a human brain). —Marina E. Franco, NBC news, 26 Mar. 2025

OpenAI’s models are trained on terabytes of public data. —Mala Ramakrishnan, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025

Fraud detection: With instant access to terabytes of financial data, AI can detect inconsistencies and fraudulent patterns with stunning speed and precision. 5. —Arleo Dordar, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025

Word History

Etymology

tera- + byte

First Known Use

1984, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for terabyte

• acolyte
• aconite
• allanite
• alunite
• amberlite
• ammonite
• amorite
• amphitrite
• analyte
• anchorite
• andesite
• anhydrite

Kids Definition

terabyte

noun

tera·​byte ˈter-ə-ˌbīt 

: 1024 gigabytes

also : one trillion bytes