Definition of

Tera-

Tera-

A prefix meaning one trillion (1,000,000,000,000 or 1012)

Examples:
• a terameter is a trillion meters (about from Earth to Saturn!)
• a teragram is a trillion grams
• a terabyte is a trillion bytes

Symbol is T

Example: 12 Tm = 12 terameters = 12 trillion meters (12,000,000,000,000 m)

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