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DEFINITION - A terabyte is a measure of computer storage capacity and is 2 to the 40th power or approximately a thousand billion bytes (that is, a thousand gigabytes).

Also see byte, gigabyte, teraflop, and petabyte.

CONTRIBUTORS: Jack Duffie
LAST UPDATED: 13 Sep 2006

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