Definition of terabyte Terabyte

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What does terabyte mean?

Noun Plural: terabytes
terabyte - a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes
		tebibyte, TB, TiB
		pebibyte, pib, petabyte, pb a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 bytes
		computer memory unit a unit for measuring computer memory
terabyte - a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes
		TB
		petabyte, pb a unit of information equal to 1024 tebibytes or 2^50 bytes
		computer memory unit a unit for measuring computer memory

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terabyte (Noun)
One trillion 1,000,000,000,000 bytes, as opposed to a tebibyte. SI symbol: TB.
terabyte (Noun)
Imprecisely, a tebibyte or 10244 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. SI symbol: TiB, computing symbol: TB.

terabyte
A unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes.

A terabyte (TB) is a unit of measurement in computers and similar electronic devices. Terabytes hold 1000 gigabytes (GB) or a trillion (1,000,000,000,000) bytes. Some people say that the exact number of bytes is 1,099,511,627,776. The term used for this exact figure is tebibyte.

Large organisations use terabytes of storage to hold massive amounts of data. People at home probably don't use terabytes, they would use gigabytes, megabytes and occasionally kilobytes. However, in the future terabytes of storage will probably be more common in home usage. In fact, according to on the Apple website, 2008 Apple iMac computers can be ordered with 1 TB hard drives.