"exabyte" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɛksəbaɪt/ Audio: En-us-exabyte.oga [US] Forms: exabytes [plural]
Etymology: From exa- + byte. Etymology templates: {{af|en|exa-|byte}} exa- + byte Head templates: {{en-noun}} exabyte (plural exabytes)
  1. (computing) One quintillion (10¹⁸, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 petabytes. Categories (topical): Computing Coordinate_terms (Previous): petabyte Translations (260 or 1018 bytes): exabyte [masculine] (Czech), exabajt [masculine] (Czech), eksabajto (Esperanto), eksabitoko (Esperanto), eksatavu (Finnish), ექსაბაიტი (eksabaiṭi) (Georgian), εξαμπάιτ (exampáit) (Greek), εξαδυφιοσυλλαβή (exadyfiosyllaví) (Greek), exabyte (Hungarian), ексабајт (eksabajt) [masculine] (Macedonian), eksabait (Malay), tsʼiiłtsohʼííłké (Navajo), exabyte [masculine] (Portuguese), эксаба́йт (eksabájt) [masculine] (Russian), เอกซะไบต์ (Thai), ئېكسابايت (ëksabayt) (Uyghur)
    Sense id: en-exabyte-en-noun-6vnAnuJ- Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'Previous': 63 37 Disambiguation of '260 or 1018 bytes': 66 34
  2. (computing, informal) a exbibyte. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Computing Coordinate_terms (Next): zettabyte
    Sense id: en-exabyte-en-noun-b-kxT36E Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with exa- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 40 60 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with exa-: 39 61 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'Next': 40 60
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: EB Related terms: exabit, exbibit, exbibyte

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