gigabyte

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/
• (America) IPA: /ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/, /ˈdʒɪɡəbaɪt/

Noun

gigabyte (plural gigabytes)

1. (SI) 10⁹, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB
   • 1981, IBM, [https://web.archive.org/web/20121004012720/http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/ibm/dasd/GA26-1664-1_3380_IBM_3380_Direct_Access_Storage_Description_and_Users_Guide_Dec81.pdf IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Description and User's Guide], 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) a gibibyte or 1024³ (1,073,741,824) bytes.

Synonyms

• GB, ㎇
• gig

Related terms

• gibibyte
• gigabit

Translations

• French: gigaoctet
• German: Gigabyte
• Portuguese: gigabyte
• Russian: гигаба́йт
• Spanish: gigabyte

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