What's the difference between byte and gigabyte?

Byte


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Authors describe the classification of the malocclusion by Angle, and considerate one open byte case, may be caused by extrusion of first lower right molar, describing orthodontic treatment for his correction.
  • (2) The images are stored on the hard disk: each image requires 3M bytes, but it can be compressed down to 25:1 with no detail loss.
  • (3) Images were acquired in dynamic-byte mode, 128 X 128 matrix size, every one minute up to 40 minutes.
  • (4) The host computer sends a stream of bytes to the parallel port that specifies the configuration of the desired output pulses.
  • (5) For some, this visibility is empowering, but all it offers me is an unspoken pressure to give money, wear pink, have something specific and meaningful to say and a cause to champion, when I have no money, prefer neutrals and don’t have many thoughts I’m inclined to boil down to sound bytes.
  • (6) The word he repeatedly emphasized was “heart”, at times placing his hand over his chest while vowing to be the candidate who would go to bat for conservative causes even if he wasn’t able to sum it up in the ideal debate sound byte.
  • (7) A new computer memory using a laser beam to impress dimples on a standard credit card has been devised which contains about 2 million bytes (700 typed pages) and which has been formatted with software to permit access to a complete medical record which can be carried by the patient and updated at each encounter with the health care system.
  • (8) The encrypted text file is very small - just 211 bytes in size - but is large enough to contain, say, a couple of sentences.
  • (9) In the form presented here the routine converts incoming bytes into separate lines and saves these lines in a file.
  • (10) The amplified EMG signals were digitized using a sampling frequency of 50 samples per second, and numerical data was stored immediately on the hard disk (1 datum = 1 byte).
  • (11) He plans to look at streetlights in upcoming research: “Most of the products we take a look at are insecure; they have vulnerabilities and allow hackers to compromise them.” Many of the weaknesses are basic, he says: devices often don’t do adequate validation of the data being sent to them, failing to check whether malicious streams of information are being sent rather than legitimate bits and bytes determining their functions.
  • (12) Four hundred fifteen finger joints from 30 patients were evaluated for the presence of joint-space erosion, narrowing, and degenerative spurring on plain films, low-resolution digitized images (1024 x 840 bytes x 12 bit matrix), and high-resolution digitized images (2048 x 1680 bytes x 12 bit matrix).
  • (13) Data from 200 measurements is stored in a 2K byte RAM CMOS system.
  • (14) The file is written as a continuous byte stream, with no line or page formating.
  • (15) The large number of bytes being shifted by Netflix is a poor proxy for that detailed picture.
  • (16) Thousands of images have been transmitted to a site more than 15 miles away, with data rates exceeding 56,000 bits or 7,000 bytes (1 byte = 8 bits) per second with nearly perfect accuracy.
  • (17) TMG's other brands include Deltapoint, RAZSOR, 2nd Byte and Autotrade-mail.
  • (18) The data are transferred via RS-232C, and the each byte of data is received by MS-DOS BIOS call.
  • (19) In order to extend this method to images whose pixel values may vary from 8 bits per pixel to 16 bits per pixel, single byte coding is suggested.
  • (20) Lyme's disease (LD) is a multisystemic infection due to Borrelia Burgdorferi transmitted through the byte of a vector arthropod of the Ixodes genre.

Gigabyte


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One gigabyte is just enough to download a single standard definition feature film from iTunes.
  • (2) Each car hoovers up – and processes – nearly one gigabyte of data every second.
  • (3) The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks caused a storm of controversy in 2010 when it was able to download almost two gigabytes of leaked US military and diplomatic files.
  • (4) This is also evident in the very different Cuban use of Wikipedia, which many people download in bulk packages of two to five gigabytes and keep on their mobile phones so they can use it without being online.
  • (5) How to contact the Guardian securely Read more The Guardian has collaborated with the ICIJ, a non-profit organisation, to analyse many gigabytes of the British data.
  • (6) Shortly after his arrest, however, a posting appeared on the Pirate Bay website, declaring the release of 33 gigabytes of academic papers from the UK journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, free for download.
  • (7) Approximately 200 gigabytes of data transactions including magnetic resonance, computed tomography and computed radiography images from our PACS were analyzed.
  • (8) A normal videotape can, therefore, contain up to 2 Gigabyte of data.
  • (9) A smartphone, capable of carrying gigabytes of data and accessing all kinds of personal information in the cloud, is clearly different from those things – even if it contains digital versions of them all.
  • (10) But the thousands of cases we can now access can reinforce international political will and practice in facing the crimes now being perpetrated in the Middle East and elsewhere.” Plesch is seeking funding to make the 900-gigabyte archive available to the public.
  • (11) A typical radiology department can create many gigabytes of image data per day and as much as 1 terabyte of data per year.
  • (12) The 400-gigabyte cache of data leaked to the authorities is understood to be the same information seen by the Guardian in its Offshore Secrets series in November 2012 and March this year.
  • (13) The new BVI data, by contrast, contains more than 200 gigabytes, covering more than a decade of financial information about the global transactions of BVI private incorporation agencies.
  • (14) The center archives between 1.5 and 2.0 gigabytes of images per workday.
  • (15) US prices start at $499 for a basic version with Wi-Fi wireless networking but no 3G connectivity, rising to $829 for a 3G version with 64 gigabytes of storage.
  • (16) Promontory examined 207 cases and covered a six-year period, analysing 323 gigabytes of data – approximately 1.5m pages and 270,000 emails.
  • (17) Yet our memory is also very forgetful: inaccessible like your floppy disks, rewritable like your web page, fragile like your malware-prone laptop, limited like the Gigabytes in your smartphone, editable like your social media profile.
  • (18) But abolishing roaming charges completely will make a big difference for consumers – meaning they will pay the same rate as at home, currently around £10 per gigabyte in Britain.
  • (19) While the camera and memory are reportedly run of the mill – a modest 5 megapixel rear lens for photos, a 1.6 megapixel front facing camera for video calls, and a basic 16 gigabytes of storage – its software may be unique.
  • (20) The final report is stored on the PACS, along with the scan image and other patient information on 1-gigabyte removable optical discs.

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