Glossary for Geospatial Science
Technical vocabulary defined by MicroImages
Glossary
petabyte, Pbyte, or PB:� A unit of computer measurement for 250 (approximately) 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes, 1,000,000,000,000 kilobytes, 1,000,000,000 megabytes, 1,000,000 gigabytes, or 1000 terabytes.� (See also: bit, byte, exabyte, gigabyte, kilobyte, megabyte, terabyte.)� Also petabyte.