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Tb   /tˈibˈi/   Listen
Tb

noun
1.
A metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers; occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and ytterbite.  Synonyms: atomic number 65, terbium.
2.
Infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages).  Synonyms: T.B., tuberculosis.
3.
A unit of information equal to 1000 gigabits or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bits.  Synonyms: Tbit, terabit.
4.
A unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes.  Synonym: terabyte.
5.
A unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes.  Synonyms: tebibyte, terabyte, TiB.






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"Tb" Quotes from Famous Books



... An examination of Silvio Pellico's work will convince the reader that Silvio Pellico was by no means a believer in the genuineness of his companion's claims. Miss Muhlbach seems to have been scarcely just in leaving the impression conveyed in the text.-TB.] ...
— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach

... dorsal vessel passing into central sinus (bs). ev, efferent vessel passing into ventral vessel (vv). epr, epiphysial tubes. st, stomochord. vs, ventral septum of proboscis. sk, body of nuchal skeleton. m, mouth. th, throat. tb, tongue-bars. tc, ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 - "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" • Various

... conspirators found few elements to work upon. And the discontented, if there were such, were held so far apart by the division between the noble and the burgher that a mutual understanding was not easy. On the other hand, within the ranks of the nobility itself, travel, commercial enterprise, and tb^ incessant wars with the Turks saved the wealthy and dangerous from that fruitful source of conspiracies idleness. In these wars they were spared, often to a criminal extent, by the general in command, and the fall of the city was predicted by a Venetian Cato, ...
— The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy • Jacob Burckhardt



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