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gibibit

noun

Etymology

From gibi- + bit.

  1. derived from *bʰeyd-✻ — “to split”
  2. inherited from *bitô✻
  3. inherited from bita — “bit; fragment; morsel”
  4. inherited from bitte
  5. formed as gibibit — “gibi- + bit”

Definitions

  1. Strictly, 2³⁰ (1024³, or 1,073,741,824) bits or 2¹⁰ (1024) mebibits, as opposed to a…

    Strictly, 2³⁰ (1024³, or 1,073,741,824) bits or 2¹⁰ (1024) mebibits, as opposed to a gigabit.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gibibit. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA