Yb (n.)

  1. a soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotime

    [ Syn: ytterbium , yb , atomic number 70 ]

  2. a unit of information equal to 1000 zettabits or 10^24 bits

    [ Syn: yottabit , ybit , yb ]

  3. a unit of information equal to 1000 zettabytes or 10^24 bytes

    [ Syn: yottabyte , yb ]

  4. a unit of information equal to 1024 zebibytes or 2^80 bytes

    [ Syn: yottabyte , yobibyte , yb , yib ]

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