G
3
3.4
- noun
- Specialized
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gigabyte
Examples
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You need to get hold of ten G.
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There's 30 G in there, so be careful.
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You got your hundred G's.
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Alright, that lot'll set you back 18 G's.
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It'll come to 120 G's if he makes it.
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- You owe me 140 G's.
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As a new user, you probably could 'get by' with 8G, but you might want to go middle of the road and get 16G just in case.
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I need to buy a new hard drive that can hold at least 2 G of data.
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This USB flash drive has a capacity of 16 G, which is perfect for storing videos.
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The new smartphone offers 64 G of storage, allowing me to save many apps and photos.
Synonyms
77
3.2
A unit of computer storage equal to about one billion bytes
13
2.7
A measure of computer data equal to about one billion bytes
Compounds
- Specialized
1
7.4
A tight garment worn by pilots and astronauts that presses the body to prevent fainting during fast turns
- Specialized
A tight garment pilots and astronauts wear to prevent blackouts during high acceleration
- Specialized
The push you feel when you speed up, compared with normal gravity like on a roller coaster
- Specialized
A treatment that uses finger pressure on parts of the body to ease pain or other symptoms
- NSFW
A very poisonous chemical weapon like sarin or tabun that stops nerves working quickly
- Archaic
An old name for the vitamin riboflavin that prevents skin problems and weight loss
Surface Forms
Etymology
The unit G stands for the prefix giga-, from a Greek word meaning 'giant', the same idea you see in gigantic. So G means one gigabyte, a 'giant' number of bytes.