petabyte

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noun
Definitions
  • (SI) One quadrillion (10, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: PB.
  • (computing) 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes or 1024. This capacity may be expressed unambiguously as a pebibyte. SI symbol: PiB, computing symbol: PB.

Etymology

Prefix from English byte.

Origin

English

byte

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