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terabit

noun

Etymology

From tera- + bit.

  1. derived from *bʰeyd-✻ — “to split”
  2. inherited from *bitô✻
  3. inherited from bita — “bit; fragment; morsel”
  4. inherited from bitte
  5. formed as terabit — “tera- + bit”

Definitions

  1. One trillion (10¹², or 1,000,000,000,000) bits or 1,000 gigabits.

  2. a tebibit.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for terabit. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA