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 year, Celeste Stange bought her magenta 8-gigabyte model on eBay for $69 and the exact opposite reason. — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026

Microsoft is addressing a Windows 11 bug that caused a folder to take up several gigabytes of storage space. — Emma Roth, The Verge, 7 July 2026

The 512 gigabyte MacBook Air now costs $1,299, up from $1,099. — ABC News, 25 June 2026

The 60-second figure is a roadmap target gated by how fast data can move from the transducers to the compute cluster — the system generates something on the order of 17 gigabytes of raw acoustic data per second. — Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 19 June 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