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

The iPhone Duo will be available in different memory capacities from 256 GB to 2 terabytes. — Mike Snider, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026

Training models with trillions of parameters can require hundreds or thousands of accelerators to exchange terabytes of data. — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026

The rest of the loadout is also quite good, with a full terabyte of SSD storage very welcome. — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 8 Sep. 2026

By comparison, Hubble has delivered a little more than 400 terabytes of data since its launch in 1990. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 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