Contextualizebeta

gigabit

noun
/ˈɡɪɡəbɪt/UK/ˈɡɪɡəbɪt/US

Etymology

From giga- + 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 gigabit — “giga- + bit”

Definitions

  1. One billion (10⁹, or 1,000,000,000) bits or 1,000 megabits.

  2. A gibibit.

The neighborhood

Derived

gigabit city, multigigabit, subgigabit

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gigabit. 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