gigabyte

From giga- +‎ byte.

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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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
• Next: terabyte

• gibibit
• gibibyte
• gigabit

• gigabajt

From giga- +‎ byte.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɪɡabajt]

gigabyte m inan

1. gigabyte

• “byte”, in Akademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech), 1995

From giga- +‎ byte.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.ɡaˈba.it/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ait

gigabyte m (invariable)

1. (computing) gigabyte

Unadapted borrowing from English gigabyte.

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

gigabyte m (plural gigabytes)

1. (computing) gigabyte (one billion bytes)

• Abbreviations: GB, giga

• Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

• gigabit
• gibibyte

gigabyte m (plural gigabytes)

1. gigabyte

• “gigabyte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024