googolbyte

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noun

A unit of digital storage equal to a googol (10¹⁰⁰) bytes.

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Meanings

noungoogolbyte (plural googolbytes)

plural googolbytes

  1. informalcomputingA unit of digital storage equal to a googol (10¹⁰⁰) bytes.

    My system has one Googolbyte of RAM and 2 Googolplexbytes of disk space.

    2006, Andreas Zeller, Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging, page 98
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    Where does the enterprise store its gigabytes, terabytes and googolbytes?

    1999 March 1, InfoWorld, volume 21, number 9

    Their home addresses were any number of condominiums on the back forty googolbytes of the infosphere.

    2010, Howard V. Hendrix, Standing Wave: A Science Fiction Novel, page 28

Origin

From googol + byte.

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Translations

Finnish googol tavua
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Polish googolbajt
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Cite this entry
APA

googolbyte. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/googolbyte

MLA

“googolbyte.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/googolbyte. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “googolbyte,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/googolbyte.

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