gigabyte
noun
giga·byte
ˈji-gə-ˌbīt 
ˈgi-
ˈgi-
: 1024 megabytes or 1,073,741,824 bytes
also
: one billion bytes
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Most consumer video editing software requires more than a gigabyte of storage these days.
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PCMAG, 16 May 2024
But even that tiny segment is overflowing with 1.4 million gigabytes of information—containing about 57,000 cells, 230 millimeters of blood vessels and 150 million synapses, the connections between neurons.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2024
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PCMAG, 16 May 2024
But even that tiny segment is overflowing with 1.4 million gigabytes of information—containing about 57,000 cells, 230 millimeters of blood vessels and 150 million synapses, the connections between neurons.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2024
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“Gigabyte.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gigabyte. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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gigabyte
noun
giga·byte
-ˌbīt
: 1,073,741,824 bytes
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