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gigabyte (n.)

1982, from giga- "billion" + byte.

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Definitions of gigabyte from WordNet

gigabyte (n.)
a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes;
Synonyms: g / gb
gigabyte (n.)
a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes;
Synonyms: gibibyte / g / gb / GiB
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