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

By late Tuesday afternoon, the Artemis II astronauts had beamed back more than 50 gigabytes’ worth of pictures and other data from the previous day’s lunar rendezvous, which set a new distance record for humanity. —Marcia Dunn, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026

Prior to the flyby, the demo had successfully transferred more than 100 gigabytes of data collected during the mission thus far. —Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 6 Apr. 2026

Some of the sites worked by pretending to offer packages of CSAM content, spanning gigabytes to terabytes, in return for cryptocurrency payments. —Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026

The setup delivered roughly 280 gigabytes per second of bandwidth, enabling the machine to process enormous datasets efficiently. —Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 15 Mar. 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