gigabyte
noun
giga·byte
ˈji-gə-ˌbīt 
ˈgi-
ˈgi-
: 1024 megabytes or 1,073,741,824 bytes
also
: one billion bytes
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An exabyte is equal to 1 billion gigabytes.
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Ari Levy, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2025
The attacker does not need to download the entire gpt-oss model, which can be several gigabytes in size.
—PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2025
When installing a large update for Cyberpunk 2077, a large game that requires dozens of gigabytes of storage, Windows abruptly stopped seeing the SSD that the game was installed on.
—Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 20 Aug. 2025
Not only that, but Meta used pornography to train its AI by scraping at least 82,000 gigabytes — 109,000 hours — of standard definition video from a pornography website.
—Annie Chestnut Tutor, Boston Herald, 18 Aug. 2025
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Ari Levy, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2025
The attacker does not need to download the entire gpt-oss model, which can be several gigabytes in size.
—PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2025
When installing a large update for Cyberpunk 2077, a large game that requires dozens of gigabytes of storage, Windows abruptly stopped seeing the SSD that the game was installed on.
—Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 20 Aug. 2025
Not only that, but Meta used pornography to train its AI by scraping at least 82,000 gigabytes — 109,000 hours — of standard definition video from a pornography website.
—Annie Chestnut Tutor, Boston Herald, 18 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for gigabyte
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“Gigabyte.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gigabyte. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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gigabyte
noun
giga·byte
-ˌbīt
: 1,073,741,824 bytes
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