giga-
Above mega, below tera
Giga- is a prefix meaning one billion (10⁹) in the metric system: a gigawatt is a billion watts, a gigabyte is a billion bytes.
In computing, the prefix has become shorthand for massive scale or capacity: My phone has 128 gigs of storage.
Informally shortened to gig in tech contexts.
Billion-element image resolution
- gigaflopsProcessing speed unit
- gigavolt10⁹ volts
- gigajouleSI energy unit, 10⁹ joules
- gigapascalSI pressure unit, huge
Processing speed unit
- bandwidthData transmission capacity
- terabyteTrillion-byte measure
- datacenterFacility housing networked computers
- RAMTemporary data storage hardware
storage · processing · memory · SSD · server · networking · throughput
Extremely large in scale
- massiveExtremely large and heavy
- hugeExtremely large in size
- epicImpressively grand in scope
- extremeFurthest from moderate
over-the-top · meme · hyperbole · exaggeration · impressive · dominant · ultra
One thousand million
- numericalRelating to figures
- astronomicalRelating to outer space
- quantitativeConcerning measurable amounts
- decimalTenths-based notation
gigapixel
Billion-element image resolution
gigapascal · tera- · mega- · peta- · kilo-
gigaflops
Processing speed unit
- bandwidthData transmission capacity
- terabyteTrillion-byte measure
- datacenterFacility housing networked computers
RAM · storage · processing · memory · SSD · server · networking · throughput
enormous
Extremely large in scale
extreme · over-the-top · meme · hyperbole · exaggeration · impressive · dominant · ultra
milliard
One thousand million
- numericalRelating to figures
- astronomicalRelating to outer space
- quantitativeConcerning measurable amounts