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 On the side of the equation, AI is accumulating terabytes of historic consumer data to forecast consumer demand for electricity. Sumant Sinha, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024 Typically, a $10 subscription to Google One comes with 2 terabytes of extra storage and other benefits; now that same package is available with Gemini Advanced thrown in for $20 per month. Lauren Goode, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024 Modernized high-performance, high-capacity communication networks ensure the seamless flow of terabytes of information throughout an operation, connecting people, things, and systems, which is essential to making the intelligent decisions needed and acting with impact and scale. Osvaldo Di Campli, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024 Something in the order of 328 million terabytes of data are being created every single day (that’s a lot of zeros). Chris Taylor, wsj.com, 17 Dec. 2023 The Gemini Advanced subscription will include 2 terabytes of storage that Google currently sells for $10 per month, meaning the company believes the AI technology is worth an additional $10 per month. Michael Liedtke, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2024 With the launch, the company disclosed two additional configurations: a version with 512 gigabytes of storage for $3,699, and a top-end model with 1 terabyte of space for $3,899. Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024

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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 23 Apr. 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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