petascale

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Synonyms: pedascule, pascale, terascale, seascale, pit scale

Antonyms: pedascule, pascale, terascale, seascale, pit scale

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Adjective

1. A [[metric]] for objects on the scale of [[quadrillion]]s (10¹⁵ or 1,000,000,000,000,000) of elements. Most often used for computer systems; a [[petascale]] computer system operates at speeds measured in [[petaflop]]s and has memory measured in [[petabyte]]s.

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