gigabyte
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How to use gigabyte in a sentence
Humans generate millions of gigabytes of data each day, and one promising way to preserve it is to encode it in the nucleotides of DNA.
The average price per gigabyte in Tunisia though is 65 times that of a gigabyte in Israel.
Which African country has the best-value mobile internet? | Carlos Mureithi | June 30, 2021 | QuartzIt worked 10 years ago, but gigabytes turned into terabytes and now terabytes are turning into petabytes.
File sizes for larger maps can be more than a gigabyte, so make sure you have enough storage space on your phone.
The cost of a gigabyte of data across providers plunged to the equivalent of 26 cents, the cheapest in the world.
Netflix v Modi and the battle for Indian cinema’s soul | Konstantin Kakaes | March 24, 2021 | MIT Technology Review
Users also require the bandwidth and patience to download large files (Flames of War is nearly a gigabyte).
ISIS Is Winning the Online Jihad Against the West | Ali Fisher, Nico Prucha | October 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBehold, the gigabyte Age: A gigabyte is the speed at which the human eye processes data to the brain, making life look seamless.
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British Dictionary definitions for gigabyte
/ (ˈɡɪɡəˌbaɪt, ˈɡaɪɡəˌbaɪt) /
computing one thousand and twenty-four megabytes: See also giga- (def. 2)
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Scientific definitions for gigabyte
[ gĭg′ə-bīt′ ]
A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 megabytes (230 bytes).
One billion bytes. See Note at megabyte.
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