Gigabyte meaning

gĭg'ə-bīt', jĭg'-
A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 megabytes (230 bytes).
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The definition of a gigabyte is a unit of storage capacity for computer data and memory equal to about one billion bytes.

An example of a gigabyte is about 200 songs stored on an mp3 player.

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A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 megabytes (230 bytes).
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A unit of storage capacity in a computer system, equal to 1,073,741,824 (230) bytes.
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One billion bytes.
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See GB.
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One billion bytes.
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(1) One billion bytes. Also GB, Gbyte and G-byte. See giga, space/time and never say.
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Equal to 230 (1,073,741,824) bytes.
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(SI) 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB.
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(computing, colloquial) Imprecisely, a gibibyte or 10243 (1,073,741,824) bytes. SI symbol: GiB, computing symbol: GB.
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One billion bytes.
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Origin of gigabyte

  • giga- +‎ byte
    From Wiktionary

Gigabyte Sentence Examples

  • A computer with a 1 Terabyte (TB) hard drive is overkill for most, but neither should you settle for an 80 Gigabyte (GB) drive.

  • Older machines usually have megabyte chips and newer ones have larger gigabyte chips installed.

  • Features include one gigabyte of RAM and a 16GB hard drive, as well as a 16GB SD Card and a 20GB EEE storage drive.

  • Computer memory chips are actually small circuit boards that contain a group of memory chips available in 32-bit or 64-bit bus widths called a SIMM or Single In-Line Memory Module containing megabyte (MB) or gigabyte (GB) chips.

  • In the years before MP3 technology, audio files on computers were extremely large, sometimes as big as a gigabyte or more per song.

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