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Gigabyte
//ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt// noun, slang
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One billion (10⁹, or 1,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 megabytes. formal
"The IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage is a disk storage device with a storage capacity of 2.5 gigabytes (billion bytes) per unit, an increase of almost four times the capacity of the IBM 3350 Direct Access Storage."
- 2 a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes wordnet
- 3 A gibibyte. informal
- 4 a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes wordnet
Etymology
From giga- + byte.
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