yottabit

English

Etymology

From yotta- + bit.

Noun

yottabit (plural yottabits)

  1. (computing) One septillion (1024, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bits or 1,000 zettabits.
    • 2000, Roberto Saracco et al., The Disappearance of Telecommunications, →ISBN, page 38:
      Assuming a steady traffic growth similar to that created by the Internet over the last 3 years, we could actually be consuming a yottabit of bandwidth by the year 2015!
  2. (computing, informal) a yobibit.

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English yottabit.

Noun

yottabit m (plural yottabits)

  1. (computing) yottabit (one septillion bits)

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