Meanings
plural yottabytes
- computingOne septillion (10²⁴, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 zettabytes.
[…] the Pentagon is attempting to expand its worldwide communications network, known as the Global Information Grid, to handle yottabytes (10²⁴ bytes) of data. (A yottabyte is a septillion bytes—so large that no one has yet coined a term for the next higher magnitude.)
2012 March 15, James Bamford, “The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)”, in Wired, →ISSN - informalcomputingA yobibyte.
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna unit of information equal to 1000 zettabytes or 10^24 bytes
nouna unit of information equal to 1024 zebibytes or 2^80 bytes
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishyotta-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeyd-
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰéydt
- Proto-Germanic*bītaną
- Proto-West Germanic*bītan
- Old Englishbītan
- Middle Englishbiten
- Englishbite
- Englishbyte
- Englishyottabyte
Translations
Arabic يَوتَابَايْت
- يَوتَابَايْت (yotābāit)280 or 1024 bytes
Chinese Mandarin 堯字節 /尧字节, YB
- 堯字節 /尧字节 (yáozìjié)280 or 1024 bytes
- YB280 or 1024 bytes
Esperanto jotabajto, jotabitoko
- jotabajto280 or 1024 bytes
- jotabitoko280 or 1024 bytes
Finnish jottatavu
- jottatavu280 or 1024 bytes
German Yottabyte
- Yottabyte280 or 1024 bytes
Greek γιοτταμπάιτ, γιοτταδυφιοσυλλαβή
- γιοτταμπάιτ (giottampáit)280 or 1024 bytes
- γιοτταδυφιοσυλλαβή (giottadyfiosyllaví)280 or 1024 bytes
Japanese ヨタバイト
- ヨタバイト (yotabaito)280 or 1024 bytes
Korean 요타바이트
- 요타바이트 (yotabaiteu)280 or 1024 bytes
Malay yotabait
- yotabait280 or 1024 bytes
Polish jottabajt
- jottabajt280 or 1024 bytes
Portuguese yottabyte
- yottabyte280 or 1024 bytes
Russian йоттаба́йт
- йоттаба́йт (jottabájt)280 or 1024 bytes
Cite this entry
yottabyte. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yottabyte
“yottabyte.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yottabyte. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “yottabyte,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yottabyte.
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