gigabytes
SayGIG-uh-byts/ˈɡɪɡəbaɪts/
- 1Plural of gigabyte.
The video files took up nearly forty gigabytes on the drive.
Our monthly data plan covers only ten gigabytes of traffic.
Note
A regular plural, but the quantity it counts can shift. In formal use each gigabyte is a decimal billion bytes, or 1,000 megabytes. Informally the word also stands for a gibibyte, the slightly larger binary unit, so state which you mean when precision matters. Before a noun the plural drops away, as with other units: a forty-gigabyte drive, but forty gigabytes of video.
gigabytes is a form of gigabyte
gigabyte, noun: A unit of digital information equal to one billion bytes, or one thousand megabytes. Full entry
- Forms
- gigabytegigabytes plural
- Spelling
- gigabyte → gigabytes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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