zettabyte
/ˈzɛtəbaɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.01 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One sextillion (10²¹, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 exabytes.
Example Sentences
- "Cerberus Scientist: I'm sorry, sir. None of Normandy's surveillance feeds have been responding since Shepard went rogue. Illusive Man: I want it back. Retry the remote lockdown protocols. Cerberus Scientist: After our last attempt, EDI flooded our server with seven zettabytes of explicit images. I think she was making a joke."
- "Conservative estimates put data produced in 2020 alone at 44 zettabytes."
- "For such quantities, it is necessary to introduce a further unit: the zettabyte which corresponds to 1000 exabytes. The International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts the world's data will grow to 175 zettabytes in 2025."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Afroasiatic *sṗɣ? Proto-Semitic *šabʕ-bor.? Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ Proto-Italic *septəm Latin septemder. ▲ Proto-Indo-European *septḿ̥ Proto-Hellenic *heptə́ Ancient Greek ἑπτᾰ́ (heptắ)der. English zetta- 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 zettabyte From zetta- + byte.