gigabyte

noun

giga·​byte ˈji-gə-ˌbīt  ˈgi- 

: 1024 megabytes or 1,073,741,824 bytes

also : one billion bytes

Examples of gigabyte in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This included an exfiltration of over 40 gigabytes of sensitive information from Schneider Electric SE’s Jira system, the leak of over 500,000 records containing personally identifiable information from Tanzania’s College of Business Education and an attack against an Iraqi city government. —Etay Maor, Forbes.com, 26 Mar. 2025

The 9a is being offered with the same 128 gigabytes of internal storage at the starting $499 price or 256 gigabytes of storage for $599. —Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2025

By contrast, today’s agentic applications must handle petabyte-scale data (a petabyte is 1 million times the size of a gigabyte). —Andrew Davidson, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025

For the first time in a MacBook Air, Apple is offering the option to configure it with as much as 32 gigabytes of memory, or RAM. —Bloomberg News, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1975, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for gigabyte

• acolyte
• aconite
• allanite
• alunite
• amberlite
• ammonite
• amorite
• amphitrite
• analyte
• anchorite
• andesite
• anhydrite

Kids Definition

gigabyte

noun

giga·​byte -ˌbīt 

: 1,073,741,824 bytes