ebit

Questions about ebit

What does ebit mean?

ebit means "a unit of information equal to 1000 petabits or 10^18 bits".

How many syllables are in ebit?

ebit has 2 syllables and divides as e-bit under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for ebit?

Close synonyms include exabit, Eb. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ebit a common word?

ebit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.