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Meaning of geopbyte | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Roughly 10³⁰ bytes; 1024 brontobytes.

nonstandard

Examples

“I don't remember where I found this:[…]1000 Brontobytes = 1 Geopbyte[…]Geopbyte: Not sure why this term was created. It's doubtful that anyone alive today will ever see a Geopbyte hard drive.”
“Geopbyte: a geopbyte is 1,024 brontobytes, which is too much data to even comprehend.”
“Any substantial company that doesn't take advantage of its own geopbytes of available data is in danger of eventual extinction.”
“Chapter 16, “Healthcare Analytics”: Covering data analytics/big data/population management; effectively managing the geopbytes of data out there lurking in our electronic records […]”
“While scientists still struggle with some petabytes of data, the digital economy is lifting the bar to the zetta and yotta scale. Some stakeholders in the field are already starting to talk about the even larger dimensions of brontobytes and geopbytes.”
“Such a massive increase in the usage of smart devices will end up generating the data up to Geopbytes (1030)^([sic]) even.”
“You cannot wrap your head around how big a geopbyte is.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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