Meaning of the word gigabyte in English

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gigabyte

US /ˈɡɪɡ.ə.baɪt/
UK /ˈɡɪɡ.ə.baɪt/
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Noun

a unit of information equal to one billion (10^9) bytes or, strictly, 1,073,741,824 (2^30) bytes.

Example:
My new hard drive has a capacity of 2 gigabytes.
Downloading this file will use up several gigabytes of data.