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

Running the show on the inside is a powerful Intel Core Ultra 7 processor paired with 16GB of RAM and a full terabyte of internal storage. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 24 June 2026

Consider a large financial services firm with tens of thousands of employees and hundreds of terabytes of unstructured data spread across file servers and cloud storage. — Carl D'halluin, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026

The system contains approximately 186,000 processing cores, 800 terabytes of RAM, and 18 petabytes of storage. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 22 June 2026

By the end of its five-year primary mission, Roman is expected to amass a 20,000-terabyte data archive. — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 June 2026

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