exabyte
/ˈɛksəbaɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One quintillion (10¹⁸, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 petabytes.
Example Sentences
- "Altogether, the human brain is estimated to hold something in the order of 200 exabytes of information."
- "North American cloud traffic in 2015 measured 1.891 exabytes per year, in the Asia Pacific 908 exabytes per year, […]"
- "In 2010, Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, stated: “There were 5 Exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days” (Schmidt, 2010). Schmidt's forecast, indeed, proved to be an underestimation."
Etymology
Etymology tree English exa- 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 exabyte From exa- + byte.