Glossary for Geospatial Science

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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.