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gigawords

gigawords is the plural of gigaword.

Meaning of gigaword

Noun

gigaword (plural gigawords)

  1. A unit of storage or capacity equal to (or 2³⁰ = 1,073,741,824) words. It is given the "giga" prefix because of the relative proximity of this value to 10⁹.
    • Frank let him have two white mice, a rabbit, and an elderly Airedale, along with a large time slice on the hospital's MEG-computational facilities, a few gigawords of data storage capacity, petty cash for wiring, and a stern warning that "any human 'volunteers' had better be named Robbins, Chun, or...1969 September, JOHN W. CAMPBELL, editor, Analog, volume LXXXIV, number 1, page 98

Questions about gigawords

What is gigawords the plural of?
Gigawords is the plural of gigaword.

Words near gigawords in the dictionary

  1. gigawatt-hours
  2. gigawatt-year
  3. gigawatt-years
  4. gigawatts
  5. gigaword
  6. gigawords
  7. gigaxonin
  8. gigayacht
  9. gigayachts
  10. gigayear
  11. gigayears

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