gigabit

noun

giga·​bit ˈji-gə-ˌbit  ˈgi- 

: one billion bits

Examples of gigabit in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The microwave brain For the project, the team fed gigabit-per-second data streams into the chip. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 30 July 2026

The upload rate could also increase as SpaceX upgrades the Starlink network with new V3 satellites in its effort to offer gigabit speeds. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 20 July 2026

What this means is bandwidth per launch amounts to 61,000 gigabits per second on Starship versus 2,600 gigabits per second for V2s on Falcon 9. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 9 July 2026

Fixed Wireless Access Repurposes Ambitious 5G Infrastructure FWA is cheaper to deploy than fiber, and for most homes and small businesses, fiber’s gigabit speeds are overkill anyway. — Shivendra Panwar, IEEE Spectrum, 24 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1970, in the meaning defined above