yb meaning and definition

YB noun

Definition of Yb (noun)

1. a soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotime
   • synonyms: atomic number 70, ytterbium
2. a unit of information equal to 1000 zettabits or 10^24 bits
   • synonyms: Ybit, yottabit
3. a unit of information equal to 1000 zettabytes or 10^24 bytes
   • synonyms: yottabyte
4. a unit of information equal to 1024 zebibytes or 2^80 bytes
   • synonyms: YiB, yobibyte, yottabyte