gigabyte — ozdic

Definitions

noun

1

One billion (10⁹, or 1,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 megabytes.

The IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage is a disk storage device with a storage capacity of 2.5 gigabytes (billion bytes) per unit, an increase of almost four times the capacity of the IBM 3350 Direct Access Storage.

It does not take much effort these days to accumulate several hundred gigabytes of data. A few hundred songs, a couple of vacations’ worth of photos, a dozen movies and television programs — and suddenly the 80 gigabyte hard drive in the notebook computer is straining.

2

A gibibyte.

Collocations

2

VERB + GIGABYTE

market, pay

GIGABYTE + NOUN

authorities, bangladesh

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073

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noun — a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000

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Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

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01

The IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage is a disk storage device with a storage capacity of 2.5 gigabytes (billion bytes) per unit, an increase of almost four times the capacity of the IBM 3350 Direct Acce

Wiktionary

02

It does not take much effort these days to accumulate several hundred gigabytes of data. A few hundred songs, a couple of vacations’ worth of photos, a dozen movies and television programs — and sudde

Wiktionary

03

In that trial, new customers can buy plans with a 5-gigabyte cap, a 20-gigabyte cap or a 40-gigabyte cap. Prices for those plans range from $30 to $50. Above the cap, customers pay $1 a gigabyte. Plan

Wiktionary

04

I have a 32 gigabyte flash drive.

Tatoeba · #10570014

05

Five motherboards of new models have been brought to the market by Gigabyte Bangladesh authorities.

Tatoeba · #11466539

Usage Notes

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