petabit

Questions about petabit

What does petabit mean?

petabit means "a unit of information equal to 1000 terabits or 10^15 bits".

How many syllables are in petabit?

petabit has 3 syllables and divides as pe-ta-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 petabit?

Close synonyms include Pbit, Pb. 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 petabit a common word?

petabit is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.