noun

terabyte

terabyte

This hard drive has one terabyte of storage.

This hard drive has one terabyte of storage.

A terabyte is equal to 1,024 gigabytes.

A terabyte is equal to 1,024 gigabytes.

((a/one/etc.)) terabyte of ((sth.)) a unit of digital information This hard drive has one terabyte of storage.

Synonyms: TB

From the prefix 'tera-' (meaning a trillion), from Greek 'teras' (monster), combined with 'byte'.

Think of 'tera' as sounding like 'terror' or 'terrible' to remember it's a terrifyingly large amount of data.

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