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ˈpɛt əˌbaɪtpetabyte
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Princeton's WordNet
petabyte, PBnoun
a unit of information equal to 1000 terabytes or 10^15 bytes
petabyte, pebibyte, PB, PiBnoun
a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 bytes
Wiktionary
petabytenoun
One quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: PB.
petabytenoun
1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes or 1024, or 2. This capacity may be expressed unambiguously as a pebibyte. SI symbol: PiB, computing symbol: PB.
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Petabyte
A petabyte is 1015 bytes of digital information. The unit symbol for the petabyte is PB. The name is composed of the SI prefix peta- (P) composed with the non-SI unit of a byte. 1 PB = 1000000000000000B = 1015bytes = 1000terabytes 1000 PB = 1 exabyte (EB)A related unit, the pebibyte (PiB), using a binary prefix, is equal to 10245 bytes, which is more than 12% greater (250 bytes = 1125899906842624bytes).
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petabyte
A petabyte is a unit of digital information storage or transmission with the prefix 'peta' which denotes the fifth power of 1000. This means one petabyte is equivalent to 1,000 terabytes or 1,000,000 gigabytes. Its unit symbol is PB. It is often used in the context of data storage capacity in fields such as digital communication and computing.
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Petabyte
The petabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix peta indicates the fifth power of 1000 and means 1015 in the International System of Units, and therefore 1 petabyte is one quadrillion bytes, or 1 billiard bytes. The unit symbol for the petabyte is PB. 1 PB = 1000000000000000B = 1015bytes = 1000terabytes. A related unit, the pebibyte, using a binary prefix, means 10245bytes, which is more than 12% greater than 10005bytes.
Editors Contribution
petabyte
A unit of digital data, data capacity or unit of computer memory with a known value.
Petabytes in some countries is used to equal one quadrillion bytes.
Submitted by MaryC on March 6, 2017
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of petabyte in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of petabyte in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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