zettabyte

See also: Zettabyte

English

Etymology

From zetta- +‎ byte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛtəbaɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

zettabyte (plural zettabytes)

1. (computing) One sextillion (10²¹, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 exabytes.
   • 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Cronos Station:

     Cerberus Scientist: I'm sorry, sir. None of Normandy's surveillance feeds have been responding since Shepard went rogue.
     Illusive Man: I want it back. Retry the remote lockdown protocols.
     Cerberus Scientist: After our last attempt, EDI flooded our server with seven zettabytes of explicit images. I think she was making a joke.

   • 2015 January 2, Fiona Graham, “Look-ahead 2015: Fly into the future and other predictions”, in BBC News‎^[1]:

     Conservative estimates put data produced in 2020 alone at 44 zettabytes.

   • 2021, Giuseppe Arbia, Statistics, New Empiricism and Society in the Era of Big Data, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 5:

     For such quantities, it is necessary to introduce a further unit: the zettabyte which corresponds to 1000 exabytes. The International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts the world's data will grow to 175 zettabytes in 2025.

2. (computing, informal) a zebibyte.

Synonyms

• ZB

Coordinate terms

• Previous: exabyte
• Next: yottabyte

Related terms

• zebibit
• zebibyte
• zettabit

Translations

2⁷⁰ or 10²¹ bytes

• Esperanto: zetabajto, zetabitoko
• Finnish: tsettatavu (fi)
• Georgian: ზეტაბაიტი (zeṭabaiṭi)
• German: Zettabyte (de) n
• Macedonian: зетабајт m (zetabajt)
• Malay: zetabait
• Navajo: bííłtsohʼííłké
• Polish: zettabajt m
• Portuguese: zettabyte (pt) m
• Russian: зеттаба́йт (ru) m (zɛttabájt)
• Uyghur: زېتتابايت (zëttabayt)

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English zettabyte.

Noun

zettabyte m (plural zettabytes)

1. (computing) zettabyte (one sixtillion bytes)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: ZB

Coordinate terms

• Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

Related terms

• zettabit
• zebibyte

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English zettabyte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θetaˈbait/ [θe.t̪aˈβ̞ai̯t̪]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /setaˈbait/ [se.t̪aˈβ̞ai̯t̪]
• Rhymes: -ait

Noun

zettabyte m (plural zettabytes)

1. zettabyte

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.