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tebibyte

tebibyte

9.9
A large unit for measuring computer storage equal to about 1,100 gigabytes
  • noun
  • /ˈtɛbɪˌbaɪt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : tebibyte
  • The backup file size exceeded one tebibyte, requiring a longer time for the transfer.

Examples

  • The backup file size exceeded one tebibyte, so it took longer to transfer.

  • The new hard drive has a capacity of 5 tebibytes.

  • A single tebibyte can store over a thousand gigabytes of data.

  • Modern servers are often equipped with several tebibytes of memory.

  • A single tebibyte can store vast amounts of data.

  • A single tebibyte can store more than a thousand gigabytes of data.

  • The new hard drive has a capacity of 5 tebibytes, allowing for extensive file storage.

Synonyms

TiB
vstebibyte
  • Specialized
7 7.7

A unit for measuring computer data equal to about 1.1 trillion bytes

is the full word form rather than the short abbreviation

How Big

YiB
  • Specialized
9.9
exbibyte
  • Specialized
9.9
pebibyte
  • Specialized
9.9
tebibyte
  • Specialized
9.9
gibibyte
  • Specialized
7.1
mebibyte
  • Specialized
8.7
kibibyte
  • Specialized
7.6

Surface Forms

tebibyte singular
tebibytes plural

Morphology

tebibyte = byte (semi-transparent) = tebi + byte

The form clearly shows 'tebi' + 'byte' indicating a large unit of bytes, but 'tebi-' is a specialized IEC binary prefix (2^40) and its exact numeric meaning is technical and not derivable by general learners.

Etymology

The word tebibyte was made for computers by joining tebi, a mark for 'binary' size, and byte, so it is like terabyte but for binary counting. Computers count memory in '1024' groups, so a tebibyte means a very large number of bytes made from those '1024' groups, not the simple '1000' groups used by 'tera'.