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Gigabyte

Explanation Posted: 12/02/01

A combination of the Greek "gigas" meaning "giant" and the English "bite" meaning "a small amount of food." A unit of measurement for physical data storage on some form of storage device-hard disk, optical disk, RAM memory, etc. and equal to two raised to the 30th power.

 

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