brontobyte

English

Etymology

From bronto- +‎ byte, in reference to the brontosaurus, a very large dinosaur.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbɹɒntəbaɪt/
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Noun

brontobyte (plural brontobytes)

  1. (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.
    • 2014, Christopher Surdak, Data Crush […] , AMACOM, →ISBN, page 174:
      In a world awash in brontobytes of data, cutting your data requirements in half can dramatically reduce the demands that data management is placing upon your business.

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