# gigabyte

Pronunciation: say "GIG-uh-byt" /ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/

## Noun

1. A unit of digital information equal to one billion bytes, or one thousand megabytes.
   - Simple: A unit of computer storage equal to one billion bytes, or one thousand megabytes.
   - _The software update downloaded nearly two gigabytes overnight._
   - _Each gigabyte of cloud storage costs only a few cents per month._
2. A unit of digital information equal to 2³⁰ bytes (1,073,741,824), the binary value more precisely called a gibibyte. *(colloquial)*
   - Simple: A unit of computer storage equal to 1,073,741,824 bytes, which is a bit more than one billion.
   - _The file manager listed the video as exactly one gigabyte, or 1,073,741,824 bytes._
   - _The server was fitted with 64 gigabytes of RAM, a total of 68,719,476,736 bytes._

## Origin

Formed from the prefix giga- combined with byte.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/gigabyte (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).