gigabyte
SayGIG-uh-byt/ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/
Pluralgigabytes
- 1A unit of computer storage equal to one billion bytes, or one thousand megabytes.
Like a box big enough to hold about a billion tiny pieces of information.
This movie file takes up almost a gigabyte of space.
The new phone comes with sixty-four gigabytes of storage.
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- 2A unit of computer storage equal to 1,073,741,824 bytes, which is a bit more than one billion.
Each gigabyte of memory here actually holds a little more than a billion bytes.
Her computer has 8 gigabytes of memory, and each gigabyte is 1,024 times 1,024 times 1,024 bytes.
Similargibibyte
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Origin
From giga- plus byte.