gigabyte
One billion bytes or 1,000 megabytesOne billion (10⁹, or 1,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 megabytes.
» I have a 32 gigabyte flash drive.
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2 senses(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
(informal)A gibibyte.
Examples
6 sentencesI have a 32 gigabyte flash drive.
I have an extra five-gigabyte memory card.
The file is 5 gigabytes large.
I suppose then an 8-Gigabyte hard drive will be adequate.
ruЯ думаю, 8-гигабайтного жёсткого диска будет достаточно. — fjay69
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. — Ooneykcall
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