yottabyte

See also: Yottabyte

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English yotta-

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 yottabyte

From yotta- + byte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɒtəbaɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

yottabyte (plural yottabytes)

1. (computing) One septillion (10²⁴, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 zettabytes.
   • 2012 March 15, James Bamford, “The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)”, in Wired‎^[1], →ISSN:

     […] the Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes (10²⁴ bytes) of data. (A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.)

2. (computing, informal) A yobibyte.

Synonyms

• YB

Coordinate terms

• Previous: zettabyte
• Next: ronnabyte, brontobyte (informal, non-SI)

Related terms

• yobibit
• yobibyte
• yottabit

Translations

2⁸⁰ or 10²⁴ bytes

• Arabic: يَوتَابَايْت m (yotābāit)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (formal) 堯字節 / 尧字节 (yáozìjié), (common abbreviation, pronounced like English) YB

• Esperanto: jotabajto, jotabitoko
• Finnish: jottatavu
• Georgian: იოტაბაიტი (ioṭabaiṭi)
• German: Yottabyte (de) n
• Greek: γιοτταμπάιτ n (giottampáit), γιοτταδυφιοσυλλαβή n (giottadyfiosyllaví)
• Japanese: ヨタバイト (yotabaito)
• Korean: 요타바이트 (yotabaiteu)
• Macedonian: јотабајт m (jotabajt)
• Malay: yotabait
• Navajo: tʼéíłtsohʼííłké
• Polish: jottabajt (pl) m
• Portuguese: yottabyte (pt) m
• Russian: йоттаба́йт (ru) m (jottabájt)
• Uyghur: يوتتابايت (yottabayt)

Portuguese

Etymology

Etymology tree

English yotta-

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 yottabyteubor.

Portuguese yottabyte

Unadapted borrowing from English yottabyte.

Noun

yottabyte m (plural yottabytes)

1. (computing) yottabyte (one septillion bytes)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: YB

Coordinate terms

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

Related terms

• yottabit
• yobibyte

Further reading

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