No. 3,329 in German
gigabyte
A unit of digital information storage equal to approximately one billion bytes.
In a sentence
Mein Computer hat eine Festplatte mit einer Kapazität von 500 Gigabyte.
My computer has a hard drive with a capacity of 500 gigabytes.
The word 'Gigabyte' is used as a unit of measurement indicating the storage capacity of the hard drive.
Der Film benötigt 2 Gigabyte Speicherplatz auf meinem Gerät.
The movie requires 2 gigabytes of storage space on my device.
Here, 'Gigabyte' specifies the amount of storage space that the file occupies on the device.
Unser Internet-Tarif erlaubt uns 50 Gigabyte Datenvolumen pro Monat.
Our internet plan allows us 50 gigabytes of data volume per month.
In this sentence, 'Gigabyte' refers to the data limit provided in the internet plan.
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