pib

Other forms of pib

plural

pibs·

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 pib

What does pib mean?

pib means "a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 bytes".

How many syllables are in pib?

pib has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. 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 pib?

Close synonyms include petabyte, pebibyte, 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 pib a common word?

pib 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.