terabyte n 1: a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes [syn: {terabyte}, {TB}] 2: a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes [syn: {terabyte}, {tebibyte}, {TB}, {TiB}]
terabyte <unit> 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 {bytes} = 1024 {gigabytes} or roughly 10^12 bytes. (Note the spelling - one 'r'). See {prefix}. (1995-09-29)