gigabyte
See also: Gigabyte
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gigabyte (plural gigabytes)
- (SI) 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB
- 1981, IBM, 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.
- 1981, IBM, IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Description and User's Guide, page 1
- (computing) a gibibyte or 10243 (1,073,741,824) bytes.
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one billion bytes
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Italian
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Noun
gigabyte m (invariable)
Portuguese
Noun
gigabyte m (plural gigabytes)
- (SI) gigabyte (one billion bytes)
Spanish
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gigabyte m (plural gigabytes)
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