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

Recently, for example, NASA’s Orion spacecraft carried the Artemis II Optical Communications System around the moon along with the crew, which used laser communication to send over 100 gigabytes of data back to Earth. —Margherita Bassi, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026

The product is a single piece of silicon roughly the size of a dinner plate, with 44 gigabytes of on-chip SRAM running at 21 petabytes per second of memory bandwidth. —Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 14 May 2026

The Fold has 512 gigabytes of storage and 16 gigabytes of memory, whereas the Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Pixel 10 Pro Fold start at 256 gigabytes. —Bloomberg, Mercury News, 14 May 2026

By comparison, ordinary internet – now heavily restricted – costs 8,000 toman per gigabyte, leaving VPN services as the only option for many. —Tim Lister, CNN Money, 10 May 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