1. A soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotime
   - ytterbium, atomic number 70
    
2. A unit of information equal to 1000 zettabits or 10^24 bits
   "In the distant future, Yb storage might become a reality";
   - yottabit, Ybit

1. A unit of information equal to 1000 zettabytes or 10^24 bytes
   "The YB may become a relevant unit as global data storage continues to grow";
   - yottabyte
    
2. A unit of information equal to 1024 zebibytes or 2^80 bytes
   "The YB represents an almost unimaginable amount of data";
   - yottabyte, yobibyte, YiB

Derived forms: YBs

Type of: computer memory unit, metal, metallic element

Part of: gadolinite, monazite, xenotime, ytterbite

Encyclopedia: Yb