GIGABYTE

gigabyte, gibibyte, GB, GiB

(noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes

gigabyte, GB

(noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

gigabyte (plural gigabytes)

(SI) 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB

(computing) a gibibyte or 10243 (1,073,741,824) bytes.

Synonyms

• GB, ㎇

• gig

Coordinate terms

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