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gigabyte

noun
/ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/UK/ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/US

Etymology

From giga- + byte.

Definitions

  1. One billion (10⁹, or 1,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 megabytes.

    • 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 gibibyte.

The neighborhood

Derived

multigigabyte, subgigabyte

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gigabyte. 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