terabyte
noun
tera·byte
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Definition of terabyte
: 1024 gigabytes or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes
also
: one trillion bytes
Examples of terabyte in a Sentence
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There’s a whopping 32GB of memory, too, and a full terabyte of SSD storage. — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, "Dynabook launches 15-inch thin-and-light Tecra X50 notebook with some big conveniences," 5 Sep. 2019 China in particular, is building huge surveillance databases of its citizens, and has been linked to massive hack attacks against foreign companies and government bodies which resulted in terabytes of information being collected. — James Griffiths, CNN, "How vulnerable are the undersea cables that power the global internet?," 25 July 2019 Some of them record terabytes of data every day—and the torrent is only increasing. — Wired, "AI Algorithms Are Now Shockingly Good at Doing Science," 17 Mar. 2019 Some of them record terabytes of data every day—and the torrent is only increasing. — Dan Falk, WIRED, "AI Algorithms Are Now Shockingly Good at Doing Science," 17 Mar. 2019 Wright is what the cable industry calls a power user — someone who chews through 1 terabyte of data or more each month. — Gerry Smithbloomberg, Los Angeles Times, "Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs," 13 Aug. 2019 The new Optane Memory M15 carries a 5-year warranty and is rated to write 365 terabytes of data over its life span. — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, "Intel's 2nd-gen Optane Memory M15 upgrades storage performance speeds," 29 May 2019 Computed by 172 models crunching 400 terabytes of data—33 times the amount Twitter stores every 24 hours—most of TWC’S 25bn daily forecasts now feed directly into customers’ computer systems. — The Economist, "The future of insurance is happening without insurance firms," 20 July 2019 At a time when tech giants face growing distrust, Estonia is entrusting terabytes of information on its citizens to an ally in the hope of improving the security of its crucial government systems. — NBC News, "Data security meets diplomacy: Why Estonia is storing its data in Luxembourg," 25 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'terabyte.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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