tera
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Tera- (; symbol T) is a metric prefix denoting a factor of a short-scale trillion or long-scale billion (1012 or 1,000,000,000,000|). It was adopted in the International System of Units (SI) in 1960. The prefix is derived from the Greek word (téras), meaning "monster".
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- numeric value
- 1000000000000
- unit symbol
- Т
- time of discovery or invention
- 1960-00-00
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C67895
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Tera- (; symbol T) is a metric prefix denoting a factor of a short-scale trillion or long-scale billion (1012 or 1,000,000,000,000|). It was adopted in the International System of Units (SI) in 1960. The prefix is derived from the Greek word (téras), meaning "monster".
== Exponentiation == 1 Tm2 means one square terametre, or the size of a × square (1024 m2), not square metres (1012 m2). 1 Tm3 means one cubic terametre, or the size of a × × cube (1036 m3), not cubic metres (1012 m3)