zb

Other forms of zb

plural

zbs·

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 zb

What does zb mean?

zb means "a unit of information equal to 1000 exabits or 10^21 bits". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in zb?

zb has 1 syllable: zb.

What is another word for zb?

Close synonyms include zettabit, Zbit, zettabyte, zettabyte, zebibyte. 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 zb a common word?

zb 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.