terabytes
TE-ruh-byts/ˈtɛɹəˌbaɪts/
- 1Plural of terabyte.
The research lab stores dozens of terabytes of climate measurements each year.
Modern game consoles ship with several terabytes of built-in storage.
Note
A regular plural, formed with a simple -s, that keeps both meanings of its singular. Strictly, each unit is one trillion bytes, or 1,000 gigabytes. Informally, the word also stands for tebibytes, the unit built on the binary prefix. When an exact capacity matters, as in a specification or a storage budget, say which unit is meant, or write tebibytes for the binary figure.
terabytes is a form of terabyte
terabyte, noun: A unit of digital information equal to one trillion bytes, or 1,000 gigabytes. Full entry
- Forms
- terabyteterabytes plural
- Spelling
- terabyte → terabytes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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