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gigabyte
This term serves as a standard measure for data storage and memory, typically associated with the capacity of hardware like USB drives or RAM. It carries a technical connotation of precision, though in casual consumer marketing, it is often used interchangeably with the decimal billion rather than the binary 1,024 power.
As a countable noun, it follows standard English pluralization rules. It is frequently used in compound modifiers, such as in "a 50-gigabyte hard drive," where the noun becomes an adjective and loses its plural suffix.
Meanings
Examples
The new smartphone comes with 128 gigabytes of internal storage.
The new smartphone comes with 128 gigabytes of internal storage.
How many gigabytes of data are left on your monthly plan?
I need a larger hard drive because this project is over a terabyte, not just a few gigabytes.
The file is only one gigabyte, so it should upload quickly.
Wait, did you say the update is ten gigabytes? That is huge.
The server capacity is measured in gigabytes for this specific tier.
I wonder if I can fit another gigabyte of photos on this SD card.
The system requires at least eight gigabytes of RAM to run the software smoothly.