American English pronunciation

How to pronounce gigabytes

IPA transcription: ['ɡɪɡə,baɪts]

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Noun

  • a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes

  • a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes

Usage examples

  • The file had a size of multiple gigabytes.
  • Company responses to press inquiries suggested a limit of several hundred gigabytes per month.
  • The file had a size of multiple gigabytes.
  • The file had a size of multiple gigabytes.
  • The file had a size of multiple gigabytes.
  • The file had a size of multiple gigabytes.
  • The file had a size of multiple gigabytes.
  • The file had a size of multiple gigabytes.
  • The file had a size of multiple gigabytes.
  • Since media files can be gigabytes in size, this is a potentially disk-intensive process.