terabyte
noun
tera·byte
ˈter-ə-ˌbīt 
: 1024 gigabytes or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes
also
: one trillion bytes
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The film is directed by Janay Boulos and Abd Alkader Habak, a married couple who constructed the documentary from many terabytes of footage shot by Habak in his native Syria during the country’s long and brutal civil war.
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 Mar. 2026
The machine scanned the skull using bright, nondestructive X-rays, generating over 9,000 high-resolution images and terabytes of data.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 7 Mar. 2026
Software then reconstructed 200-plus terabytes of data generated into 3D volumes, with neural networks helping to automate the identification and analysis of anatomical structures.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2026
The MacBook Pro also comes with one terabyte of storage for M5 Pro and two terabytes for M5 Max.
—Greta Cross, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 15 Mar. 2026
The machine scanned the skull using bright, nondestructive X-rays, generating over 9,000 high-resolution images and terabytes of data.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 7 Mar. 2026
Software then reconstructed 200-plus terabytes of data generated into 3D volumes, with neural networks helping to automate the identification and analysis of anatomical structures.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2026
The MacBook Pro also comes with one terabyte of storage for M5 Pro and two terabytes for M5 Max.
—Greta Cross, USA Today, 4 Mar. 2026
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“Terabyte.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terabyte. Accessed 20 Mar. 2026.
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terabyte
noun
tera·byte
ˈter-ə-ˌbīt
: 1024 gigabytes
also
: one trillion bytes
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