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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This is available with up to 512 gigabytes of storage.
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Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 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
Meanwhile, the MacBook Air M5 comes standard with a higher 16 gigabytes of unified memory and 512 gigabytes of storage space.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026
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Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 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
Meanwhile, the MacBook Air M5 comes standard with a higher 16 gigabytes of unified memory and 512 gigabytes of storage space.
—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 12 Mar. 2026
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gigabyte
noun
giga·byte
-ˌbīt
: 1,073,741,824 bytes
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