ギガバイト

ぎがばいと
noun
gigabyte; GB
technologynumber
1. gigabyte; GB
A unit of digital data, about one billion bytes.
I have ten gigabytes of photos alone.
This file is about two gigabytes.
I switched to a plan that lets me use up to twenty gigabytes of data a month.

Usage

Written GB. In speech it is often shortened to ギガ, which has come to mean one's monthly mobile-data allowance: ギガが足(た)りない (I'm running out of data), ギガを使(つか)い切(き)る (to use up one's data).

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