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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 petabytes (260 bytes).
  • noun One quintillion (1018) bytes.

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  • noun computing a unit of storage capacity, either 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1018) or 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 (260) bytes, the latter can be unambiguously referred to by the unit name exbibyte

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a unit of information equal to 1000 petabytes or 10^18 bytes
  • noun a unit of information equal to 1024 pebibytes or 2^60 bytes

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exa- +‎ byte

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