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Definitions for Terabyte
ˈtɛr əˌbaɪtter·abyte

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. terabyte, TBnoun

    a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes

  2. terabyte, tebibyte, TB, TiBnoun

    a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes

Wiktionary

  1. terabytenoun

    One trillion (1,000,000,000,000) bytes, as opposed to a tebibyte. SI symbol: TB.

  2. terabytenoun

    Imprecisely, a tebibyte or 1024 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes. SI symbol: TiB, computing symbol: TB.

Wikidata

  1. Terabyte

    The terabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix tera represents the fourth power of 1000, and means 10¹² in the International System of Units, and therefore is one terabyte is one trillion bytes. The unit symbol for the terabyte is TB. 1 TB = 1000000000000bytes = 10¹²bytes = 1000gigabytes. A related unit, the tebibyte, using a binary prefix, is the corresponding 4th power of 1024. One terabyte expressed using binary prefixes is about 0.910 tebibytes, or 931 gibibytes.

Editors Contribution

  1. terabyte

    Is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

    Terabyte is used in supercomputer memory, hard disk drive, tape drive and motherboard memory.


    Submitted by MaryC on December 6, 2015  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Terabyte in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Terabyte in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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