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

Among the hundreds of gigabytes of material released by the Justice Department as part of the Epstein files are more than 2,000 videos, with hours of footage that had never before been made public. —Kerry Breen, CBS News, 11 Feb. 2026

According to a spec breakdown posted by Digital Foundry in May, the Switch 2 uses 12 gigabytes of LPDDR5X, a mobile-friendly standard DRAM that was designed to quickly move lots of data without also rapidly draining the handheld battery. —Eric Sullivan, Scientific American, 5 Feb. 2026

The Note Pro has 64 gigabytes of storage and four small microphones — double those found on the Note. —Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2026

Cloud storage gets chaotic when your files live in five different apps and each extra gigabyte means another monthly fee. —New Atlas, 20 Jan. 2026

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