brontobyte
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
bronto- + byte, in reference to the brontosaurus, a very large dinosaur.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
brontobyte (plural brontobytes)
- (informal, computing) 1027 or 290 bytes.
- Synonym: (standard) ronnabyte
- 2014 June 11, Julie Bort, “There's A New Word Being Used In The Computer Industry: ‘Brontobytes’”, in Business Insider[1]:
- We believe this is the first time a company has ever talked about a machine that can crunch through “brontobytes” of data. (The word reminds us of brontosaurus, the largest dinosaur.) And just how big is that? It's 1,000 Yottabytes, of course.
Usage notes[edit]
Bronto- is not a standard prefix in the metric International System of Units.
Coordinate terms[edit]
- Previous: yottabyte