exabit

9.6

A very large unit for measuring digital information equal to one million million million bits

noun
/ˈɛksəˌbɪt/

Specialized

: exabit

One exabit equals one quintillion bits.

Examples

The total bandwidth of the new undersea cable network can handle up to one exabit per second.
Scientists predict that the world's internet traffic will soon exceed several exabits daily.
Advances in technology have made transferring an exabit of data more feasible than ever before.
The data center can store up to 5 exabits of information.
Scientists predict that the world's internet traffic will soon exceed several exabits daily.
The total bandwidth of the new undersea cable network can handle up to one exabit per second.
The data center can store up to 5 exabits of information.

Synonyms

Ebit

vsexabit

Specialized

1 9.9

A very large unit of digital information equal to one billion billion bits

is the consistent definition equal to 10^18 bits without contradiction

vsexabit

Specialized

9.9

A very large unit for measuring digital information equal to one million million million bits

is defined as the same size using petabits as reference

How Large

zettabit

Specialized

8.9

exabit

Specialized

9.6

petabit

Specialized

7.5

terabit

Specialized

1 5.1

gigabit

Specialized

3 4.0

megabit

Specialized

2 3.7

kilobit

Specialized

1 4.8

Surface Forms

exabit singular

exabits plural

Morphology

exabit = bit (semi-transparent) = exa + bit

Formed from the SI prefix 'exa-' + 'bit'—the morphological relation is clear, but the specific magnitude (10^18) is specialized technical knowledge.

Etymology

The word exabit joins the prefix exa- (which means 'a 1 with 18 zeros', a very large number) and bit ('a unit of information'). So an exabit is one 'bit' multiplied by that huge number, which is why we use it to measure extremely large amounts of data.