yottabit

English

Etymology

From yotta- +‎ bit.

Noun

yottabit (plural yottabits)

1. (computing) One septillion (10²⁴, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) bits or 1,000 zettabits.
   • 2000, Roberto Saracco et al., The Disappearance of Telecommunications‎^[1], →ISBN, page 38:

     Assuming a steady traffic growth similar to that created by the Internet over the last 3 years, we could actually be consuming a yottabit of bandwidth by the year 2015!

2. (computing, informal) a yobibit.

Synonyms

• Ybit

Coordinate terms

• Previous: zettabit

Related terms

• yobibyte
• yottabyte

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English yottabit.

Noun

yottabit m (plural yottabits)

1. (computing) yottabit (one septillion bits)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: Ybit, Yb

Coordinate terms

• Multiples of the bit: kilobit, megabit, gigabit, terabit, petabit, exabit, zettabit, yottabit

Related terms

• yottabyte
• yobibit