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单词 petagram
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petagram
Used in the names of units of measurement to denote a factor of 1015 (one thousand million million; a quadrillion), as petabyte, petagram, petawatt, etc. Symbol P.
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1975 Physics Bull. Mar. 105/1 The Committee [sc. the International Committee of Weights and Measures (CIPM)] also agreed to recommend that the 15th and 18th powers of 10 be assigned the names ‘peta’ (symbol P) and ‘exa’ (symbol E) respectively.
1980 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 77 5043/1 The ocean should be carrying about 50% of the poleward heat flux at about 20°N—i.e., about 2.9 PW (1 PW = 1 petawatt = 1015 watts).
1981 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 301 377 (note) 1 Pg (petagram) = 1015 g.
1989 Communications ACM (Nexis) Dec. 1456 A mere three years of such data gathering would require about a petabyte (1015) of storage.
1995 Computer Weekly 23 Nov. 2/5 It [sc. a database] is expected to grow by a trillion bytes a day to reach into the petabyte range.
1996 New Scientist 8 June 22/1 Gigawatts are easy for lasers and even terawatts are no big deal. But last month, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California crossed the petawatt (1015 watts) threshold.
1998 Nature 17 Dec. 664/1 In El Niño years..the ecosystems act as a source of carbon to the atmosphere (up to 0.2 petagrams of carbon in 1987 and 1992).
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