gigabyte
See also: Gigabyte
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gigabyte (plural gigabytes)
- (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.
- (computing, informal) a gibibyte.
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one billion bytes
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gigabyte m inan
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- byte in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz
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gigabyte m (invariable)
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Unadapted borrowing from English gigabyte.
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gigabyte m (plural gigabytes)
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- Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte
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gigabyte m (plural gigabytes)
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- “gigabyte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014