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exabyte

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈɛksəbaɪt/
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  • CMU ARPABET: EH1 K S AH0 B AY2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

One quintillion (1018, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 petabytes.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

An exbibyte.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

a unit of information equal to 1024 pebibytes or 2^60 bytes

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: exbibyte, EB, EiB

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: computer memory unit

4

noun

Meaning 4

a unit of information equal to 1000 petabytes or 10^18 bytes

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: EB

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: computer memory unit

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English exa- Proto-Indo-European *bheyd- Proto-Indo-European *bhéydt Proto-Germanic *bītaną Proto-West Germanic *bītan Old English bītan Middle English biten English bite English byte English exabyte From exa- + byte.

Across languages

Translations

22 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: أَكْسَبايْت (ʔaksabāyt) — 260 or 1018 bytes
  • Chinese Mandarin: 艾字節 /艾字节 (àizìjié) — 260 or 1018 bytes
  • Chinese Mandarin: EB — 260 or 1018 bytes
  • Czech: exabyte — 260 or 1018 bytes
  • Czech: exabajt — 260 or 1018 bytes
  • Esperanto: eksabajto — 260 or 1018 bytes
  • Esperanto: eksabitoko — 260 or 1018 bytes
  • Finnish: eksatavu — 260 or 1018 bytes
  • Georgian: ექსაბაიტი (eksabaiṭi) — 260 or 1018 bytes
  • Greek: εξαμπάιτ (exampáit) — 260 or 1018 bytes
  • Greek: εξαδυφιοσυλλαβή (exadyfiosyllaví) — 260 or 1018 bytes
  • Hungarian: exabyte — 260 or 1018 bytes
  • Japanese: エクサバイト (ekusabaito) — 260 or 1018 bytes
  • Korean: 엑사바이트 (eksabaiteu) — 260 or 1018 bytes
  • Macedonian: ексабајт (eksabajt) — 260 or 1018 bytes
  • Malay: eksabait — 260 or 1018 bytes
  • Navajo: tsʼiiłtsohʼííłké — 260 or 1018 bytes
  • Polish: eksabajt — 260 or 1018 bytes
  • Portuguese: exabyte — 260 or 1018 bytes
  • Russian: эксаба́йт (ɛksabájt) — 260 or 1018 bytes
  • Thai: เอกซะไบต์ — 260 or 1018 bytes
  • Uyghur: ئېكسابايت (ëksabayt) — 260 or 1018 bytes