gigabit

noun

giga·​bit ˈji-gə-ˌbit  ˈgi- 

: one billion bits

Examples of gigabit in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Last year, SpaceX debuted a new $1,999 Performance dish that'll eventually support gigabit connections. — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 14 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

By using link aggregation, users can achieve combined throughputs of up to 1,010 MB/s, which is some 10 times faster than using standard gigabit Ethernet. — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1970, in the meaning defined above