gigabyte
noun/ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/
Frequency rank: #17,875 most common English word
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 2 gigabyte of storage space on my computer.
Synonyms & related words
- gb
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