Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

terabyte

/ˈtɛɹəˌbaɪt/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.10 in modern English

Syllables: tera-byte
IPA: /ˈtɛɹəˌbaɪt/

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One trillion (10¹², or 1,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 gigabytes.

noun

Informal

Etymology

Etymology tree English tera- 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 terabyte From tera- + byte.

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

terabytes (plural)

Derived Forms

multiterabyte subterabyte

Frequently Paired Words

tebibit tebibyte terabit gigabyte petabyte

Synonyms

TB tebibyte tib

Rhymes With

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Questions

How do you pronounce terabyte?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtɛɹəˌbaɪt/.
What does terabyte mean?: One trillion (10¹², or 1,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 gigabytes.
Where does terabyte come from?: Etymology tree English tera- 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 terabyte From tera- + byte.

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