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

The hard drive alone contained nearly 500 gigabytes of files and thousands of explicit videos and images of children, including one roughly nine-minute video of a toddler performing oral sex on a grown man, court documents show. — Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 6 Aug. 2026

Large models may require tens of gigabytes just to load, before accounting for context, caching or runtime overhead. — Michael Wu, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026

The privacy question is about sharing a little bit of information once, at account creation, in order to grant a social media company the right to take, use, and sell gigabytes of your personal information for many years to come. — Ravi Iyer, Time, 18 July 2026

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

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