Meaning

2 senses
  1. (formal)One billion (10⁹, or 1,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 megabytes.

    Gigabyte

    гигаба́йтgigabájt

    гігаба́йтhihabájt

    a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes

  2. (informal)A gibibyte.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. I have a 32 gigabyte flash drive.

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  2. I have an extra five-gigabyte memory card.

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  3. The file is 5 gigabytes large.

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  4. I suppose then an 8-Gigabyte hard drive will be adequate.

    ruЯ думаю, 8-гигабайтного жёсткого диска будет достаточно.

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  5. The secret folder on Tom's computer holds hundreds of gigabytes of stoat videos.

    ruВ секретной папке у Тома на компьютере сотни гигабайт видео с горностаями.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
one billion bytes:
Русский
By meaning 1
one billion bytes:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
one billion bytes:

Forms

plural: gigabytes
Singulargigabyte
Pluralgigabytes

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes:gibibyteGGBGiB
  • a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes:GGB

Word family

5 related words

See also

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