geopbyte
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Roughly 10³⁰ bytes; 1024 brontobytes.
Example Sentences
- "I don't remember where I found this:[…]1000 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte[…]Geopbyte: Not sure why this term was created. It's doubtful that anyone alive today will ever see a Geopbyte hard drive."
- "Geopbyte: a geopbyte is 1,024 brontobytes, which is too much data to even comprehend."
- "Any substantial company that doesn't take advantage of its own geopbytes of available data is in danger of eventual extinction."
- "Chapter 16, “Healthcare Analytics”: Covering data analytics/big data/population management; effectively managing the geopbytes of data out there lurking in our electronic records […]"
- "While scientists still struggle with some petabytes of data, the digital economy is lifting the bar to the zetta and yotta scale. Some stakeholders in the field are already starting to talk about the even larger dimensions of brontobytes and geopbytes."
- "Such a massive increase in the usage of smart devices will end up generating the data up to Geopbytes (1030)^([sic]) even."
Etymology
The term was in use on English-language websites by 2009 (see quotation below). Before that, it had begun to appear on Spanish-language sites by 2007. The earliest known use is in a February 2006 edit to Spanish Wikipedia's "Byte" article by an anonymous contributor, whose immediately preceding edits to another article make it clear that the term was inspired by Korean 겁 (劫, geop), presumably in the sense "kalpa" (an extremely long span of time in Hindu and Buddhist chronology).
Origin
Word Breakdown
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