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

With some MacBooks offering just a few hundred gigabytes, and others offering multiple terabytes, this is one of the main areas of variance between the different laptops. — Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 19 Aug. 2026

Between December 2025 and February 2026, attackers used compromised AI agents to extract 150 gigabytes of sensitive data from nine Mexican government agencies, including the federal tax authority and electoral institute. — Israel Duanis, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

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

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

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