gigabyte
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- noun
- /ˈɡɪɡəˌbaɪt/
- Specialized
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gigabyte
- Your storage capacity is now 160 gigabytes.
- gigabytes of data
- gigabytes of memory
- gigabyte hard drive
So, you know, in our day where where we have, you know, gigabytes of, of storage available, not that big of a deal.
- So, you know, in our day where where we have, you know, gigabytes of, of storage available, not that big of a deal.
- But we didn't understand it well enough to actually compute the correction, to compute how many gigabytes there were.
- The speeds, the gigabytes, the modem, the text, the Wi-Fi, the AirDrop.
Examples
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When storage needs exceed approximately a gigabyte, the most cost-effective storage is provided by either tape or optical storage.
Academic text (1996) -
Your present capacity: 80 gigabytes.
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Most of the time, the way this is charged is per gigabyte or per document.
Blog text (4) -
So, you know, in our day where where we have, you know, gigabytes of, of storage available, not that big of a deal.
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One billion gigabytes of storage.
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A hundred and sixty gigabytes?
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In the coming year, King and his team plan to further analyze the gigabytes of data they have already gathered.
Academic text (2008) -
The base model includes 16 gigabytes of internal storage and 1 GB of RAM.
Blog text (9) -
But on today's phones, you could easily store gigabytes of maps on a micro SD card.
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I need at least five gigabytes of free space on my phone to install the new app.
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Etymology
The word gigabyte comes from the part giga-, the same root as gigantic, meaning 'very large', and byte, a small unit of computer 'data' that sounds like a 'bite' of information. So a gigabyte is like a 'giant bite' of data, about one billion bytes, and that is why we use it to show the size of phone and computer storage.