terabyte

Other forms of terabyte

plural

terabytes·

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 terabyte

What does terabyte mean?

terabyte means "a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in terabyte?

terabyte has 3 syllables: ter-a-byte. The stress falls on "byte". In IPA it is /ˌtɛɹəˈbaɪt/.

What is another word for terabyte?

Close synonyms include TB, tebibyte, TB, TiB. 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 terabyte a common word?

terabyte 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.

What rhymes with terabyte?

12 words rhyme with terabyte. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.