petabyte

See also: Petabyte

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English peta-

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd-

Proto-Indo-European *-t

Proto-Indo-European *bʰéydt

Proto-Germanic *bītaną

Proto-West Germanic *bītan

Old English bītan

Middle English biten

English bite

English byte

English petabyte

From peta- + byte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɛtəbaɪt/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

petabyte (plural petabytes)

1. One quadrillion (10¹⁵, or 1,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 terabytes.
2. (computing, informal) A pebibyte.
   • 2008 June 23, Chris Anderson, “The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete”, in WIRED‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 8 February 2016:

     As we moved along that progression, we went from the folder analogy to the file cabinet analogy to the library analogy to — well, at petabytes we ran out of organizational analogies.
     At the petabyte scale, information is not a matter of simple three- and four-dimensional taxonomy and order but of dimensionally agnostic statistics.

   • 2017, Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Higher Education under Late Capitalism, Springer, →ISBN, page 82:

     The Hadron Collider has gone from producing 320 terabytes of data a week to a petabyte a second. In short, it has been said that the total amount of data created worldwide in 2011 was about one zetabyte^[sic] (or 1,000,000 petabytes) and that this figure will increase by 50%–60% in each subsequent year.

   • 2019 July 10, Ernie Smith, “The Most Clever ‘Zip Bomb’ Ever Made Explodes a 46MB File to 4.5 Petabytes”, in VICE‎^[2], archived from the original on 11 September 2024:

     Instead, Fifield figured out how to “overlap” files inside of a Zip archive, allowing for compression rates far beyond those of a traditional archive—in his most impressive case, he managed to get a 46-megabyte file to compress 4.5 petabytes of data.

Synonyms

• PB

Coordinate terms

• Previous: terabyte
• Next: exabyte

Derived terms

• multipetabyte

Related terms

• pebibit
• pebibyte
• petabit

Translations

1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes

• Arabic: بِيتَابَايْت m (bitabayt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (formal) 拍它字節 / 拍它字节 (pāitāzìjié), (formal) 拍字節 / 拍字节 (pāizìjié), (common abbreviation, pronounced like English) PB (zh)

• Czech: petabyte m, petabajt m
• Esperanto: petabajto, petabitoko
• Finnish: petatavu (fi)
• French: pétaoctet (fr) m
• Georgian: პეტაბაიტი (ṗeṭabaiṭi)
• German: Petabyte (de) n
• Greek: πεταμπάιτ (el) n (petampáit), πεταδυφιοσυλλαβή n (petadyfiosyllaví)
• Hungarian: petabyte (hu)
• Japanese: ペタバイト (petabaito)
• Korean: 페타바이트 (petabaiteu)
• Macedonian: петабајт m (petabajt)
• Malay: petabait
• Navajo: są́ą́łtsohʼííłké
• Polish: petabajt (pl) m
• Portuguese: petabyte (pt) m
• Russian: петаба́йт (ru) m (petabájt)
• Thai: เพตะไบต์ (th)
• Uyghur: پېتابايت (pëtabayt)

Czech

Alternative forms

• petabajt

Etymology

From peta- + byte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛtabajt]

Noun

petabyte m inan

1. petabyte

Declension

Declension of petabyte (hard masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	petabyte	petabyty
genitive	petabytu	petabytů
dative	petabytu	petabytům
accusative	petabyte	petabyty
vocative	petabyte	petabyty
locative	petabytu	petabytech
instrumental	petabytem	petabyty

Further reading

• “byte”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English petabyte.

Noun

petabyte m (plural petabytes)

1. (computing) petabyte (one quadrillion bytes)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: PB, peta

Coordinate terms

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

Related terms

• petabit
• pebibyte

Further reading

• “petabyte”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026