Definitions for Gigabyte
ˈgɪg əˌbaɪt, ˈdʒɪg-gi·ga·byte

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gigabyte, G, GBnoun

   a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes

2. gigabyte, gibibyte, G, GB, GiBnoun

   a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes

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1. gigabytenoun

   10, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes, as opposed to a gibibyte. SI symbol: GB

2. gigabytenoun

   Imprecisely, a gibibyte or 1024 (1,073,741,824) bytes. SI symbol: GiB, computing symbol: GB.

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1. Gigabyte

   The gigabyte () is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units (SI). Therefore, one gigabyte is one billion bytes. The unit symbol for the gigabyte is GB. This definition is used in all contexts of science (especially data science), engineering, business, and many areas of computing, including storage capacities of hard drives, solid state drives, and tapes, as well as data transmission speeds. However, the term is also used in some fields of computer science and information technology to denote 1073741824 (10243 or 230) bytes, particularly for sizes of RAM. Thus, prior to 1998, some usage of gigabyte has been ambiguous. To resolve this difficulty, IEC 80000-13 clarifies that a gigabyte (GB) is 109 bytes and specifies the term gibibyte (GiB) to denote 230 bytes. These differences are still readily seen for example, when a 400 GB drive's capacity is displayed by Microsoft Windows as 372 GB instead of 372 GiB. Analogously, a memory module that is labeled as having the size "1GB" has one gibibyte (1GiB) of storage capacity. In response to litigation over whether the makers of electronic storage devices must conform to Microsoft Windows' use of a binary definition of "GB" instead of the metric/decimal definition, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California rejected that argument, ruling that "the U.S. Congress has deemed the decimal definition of gigabyte to be the 'preferred' one for the purposes of 'U.S. trade and commerce.'"

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1. gigabyte

   A gigabyte is a unit of digital information or computer storage equal to approximately 1 billion bytes. In the binary numbering system, one gigabyte is equal to 1,073,741,824 bytes, or 1024 megabytes. It is commonly used to measure the size of computer hard drives, system memory (RAM), or the capacity of a device like a flash drive or a DVD.

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1. Gigabyte

   The gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units, therefore 1 gigabyte is 1000000000bytes. The unit symbol for the gigabyte is GB. Historically, the term has also been used in some fields of computer science and information technology to denote the gibibyte, or 1073741824 bytes. For instance, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers defined the unit accordingly for the use in power switchgear. In 2000, however, IEEE adopted the International Electrotechnical Commission recommendation, which uses the metric prefix interpretation. Today the usage of the unit gigabyte continues to depend on the context. When referring to disk capacities it usually means 109 bytes, often stated explicitly on the manufacturer's permanent sticker. This also applies to data transmission quantities over telecommunication circuits, as the telecommunications and computer networking industries have always used the SI prefixes with their standards-based meaning. When referring to RAM sizes it most often has a binary interpretation of 1024³ bytes, i.e. as an alias for gibibyte. File systems and software often list file sizes or free space in some mixture of SI units and binary units; they sometimes use SI prefixes to refer to binary interpretation – that is using a label of gigabyte or GB for a number computed in terms of gibibytes, continuing the confusion.

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1. gigabyte

   Is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

   Gigabyte is used in all contexts of science, engineering, business, and many areas of computing, including hard drive, solid state drive, and tape capacities, as well as data transmission speeds

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on December 6, 2015  

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Gigabyte in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Gigabyte in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of Gigabyte in a Sentence

1. Donald Trump:

   The 2.5 gigabyte exemption gives us quite a bit of headroom to import tariff-free cells.

2. David Vaile:

   Some mobile plans may only include a few gigabytes of data so if Google is harvesting a gigabyte of data, it is a very real cost to consumers.

3. Digital Infrastructure Minister Alexander Dobrindt:

   We are investing in the development of the gigabyte society. For this we need super-fast internet everywhere in Germany for everyone.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Gigabyte
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gigabyte
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte
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5. ^ Wikidata
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