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gigabytes

gigabytes is the plural of gigabyte.

Meaning of gigabyte

Noun

gigabyte (plural gigabytes)

  1. (formal) 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.1981, IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Description and User's Guide, IBM, page 1
  2. (informal) A gibibyte.

Questions about gigabytes

What is gigabytes the plural of?
Gigabytes is the plural of gigabyte.

Words near gigabytes in the dictionary

  1. gigaboo
  2. gigaboos
  3. gigabuck
  4. gigabucks
  5. gigabyte
  6. gigabytes
  7. gigacalorie
  8. gigacandela
  9. gigacast
  10. gigacasted
  11. gigacasting

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