gigabyte

From giga- +‎ byte.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/, /ˈd͡ʒɪɡəbaɪt/

gigabyte (plural gigabytes)

1. (computing, formal) One billion (10⁹, or 1,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 megabytes.
   • 1981, IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Description and User's Guide, IBM, page 1:

     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. (computing, informal) a gibibyte.

• GB
• gig (informal)

• Previous: megabyte
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• gibibit
• gibibyte
• gigabit

• gigabajt

From giga- +‎ byte.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɪɡabajt]

gigabyte m inan

1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• byte in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

From giga- +‎ byte.

gigabyte m (invariable)

1. (computing) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌʒiɡaˈbajt(ʃ)(i)/

gigabyte m (plural gigabytes)

1. (computing) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (one billion bytes)

• Abbreviations: GB, giga

• Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

• gigabit
• gibibyte

gigabyte m (plural gigabytes)

1. Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• “gigabyte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014