gigaword

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A unit of storage or capacity equal to (or 2³⁰ = 1,073,741,824) words. It is given the "giga" prefix because of the relative proximity of this value to 10⁹.
    — Frank let him have two white mice, a rabbit, and an elderly Airedale, along with a large time slice on the hospital's MEG-computational facilities, a few gigawords of data storage capacity, petty cash for wiring, and a stern warning that "any human 'volunteers' had better be named Robbins, Chun, or Hostler" to avoid repetitions of unfortunate past misadventures with patients who had not quite understood to what they were agreeing.

词形变化

gigawords plural

词源

From giga- + word.
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