terabyte
noun
tera·byte
ˈter-ə-ˌbīt 
: 1024 gigabytes or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes
also
: one trillion bytes
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Phil Reynolds, an engineer, showed me to a table where a four-terabyte drive lay open.
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Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
There is more than 40 terabytes of discovery for the district attorney's office to work through, the prosecution said.
—Andrew Blankstein, NBC news, 20 Apr. 2026
An unknown number of internet users have downloaded the terabytes of data in the weeks since its release.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Each one can store 122 terabytes of information — enough to hold the entire Wikipedia text database 5,000 times.
—James Taylor, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
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Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
There is more than 40 terabytes of discovery for the district attorney's office to work through, the prosecution said.
—Andrew Blankstein, NBC news, 20 Apr. 2026
An unknown number of internet users have downloaded the terabytes of data in the weeks since its release.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
Each one can store 122 terabytes of information — enough to hold the entire Wikipedia text database 5,000 times.
—James Taylor, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
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“Terabyte.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/terabyte. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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terabyte
noun
tera·byte
ˈter-ə-ˌbīt
: 1024 gigabytes
also
: one trillion bytes
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