yottabyte
/ˈjɒtəbaɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One septillion (10²⁴, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 zettabytes.
Example Sentences
- "[…] 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.)"
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.