English Explanatory Dictionary

geopbyte

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Roughly 10³⁰ bytes; 1024 brontobytes.

Word forms

geopbyte geopbytes

Etymology

The term was in use on English-language websites by 2009 (see quotation below). Before that, it had begun to appear on Spanish-language sites by 2007. The earliest known use is in a February 2006 edit to Spanish Wikipedia's "Byte" article by an anonymous contributor, whose immediately preceding edits to another article make it clear that the term was inspired by Korean 겁 (劫, geop), presumably in the sense "kalpa" (an extremely long span of time in Hindu and Buddhist chronology).

Synonyms

quettabyte
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