gigabyte
noun/ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/
Frequency rank: #17,875 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
A unit of digital information equal to approximately one billion bytes, commonly used to measure storage or memory capacity.
Example sentence
This video file takes up about one gigabyte of storage space on my computer.
Synonyms & related words
- gb
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