petabyte

Other forms of petabyte

plural

petabytes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about petabyte

What does petabyte mean?

petabyte means "a unit of information equal to 1000 terabytes or 10^15 bytes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in petabyte?

petabyte has 3 syllables: pe-ta-byte. The stress falls on "pe".

What is another word for petabyte?

Close synonyms include PB, pebibyte, PB, PiB. 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 petabyte a common word?

petabyte 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.