German

Noun

Gigabyte n

1. gigabyte (one billion bytes)

English

Noun

gigabyte ‎(plural gigabytes)

1. (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.

2. (computing, colloquial) Imprecisely, a gibibyte or 1024³ (1,073,741,824) bytes.

Synonyms

• GB, ㎇
• gig

Coordinate terms

• Previous: megabyte
• Next: terabyte

Related terms

• gibibyte
• gigabit

Translations

References

• The IEC explanation of its definitions

Italian

Etymology

giga- +‎ byte

Noun

gigabyte m ‎(invariable)

1. (computing) gigabyte

Portuguese

Noun

gigabyte m (plural gigabytes)

1. (SI) gigabyte (one billion bytes)

Spanish

Noun

gigabyte m ‎(plural gigabytes)

1. gigabyte