gb

6 definitions found

gb - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  GB
      n 1: a highly toxic chemical nerve agent that inhibits the
           activity of cholinesterase [syn: sarin, GB]
      2: a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns
         [syn: gilbert, Gb, Gi]
      3: a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9
         (1,000,000,000) bits [syn: gigabit, Gbit, Gb]
      4: a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9
         (1,000,000,000) bytes [syn: gigabyte, G, GB]
      5: a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30
         (1,073,741,824) bytes [syn: gigabyte, gibibyte, G,
         GB, GiB]
      6: an island comprising England and Scotland and Wales [syn:
         Great Britain, GB]

gb - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  GB
  
     <unit> gigabytes or gigabits - see MB.  Giga stands for
     10^9 - a US billion, or in computing for 2^30.
  
     The text of a thirty volume encyclopaedia would require about
     one gigabyte of ASCII storage.
  
     (1997-03-27)
  

  Gb
  
     <unit> Gigabit.  10^9 bits.  Might also be wrongly used for
     gigabyte (GB).
  
     (1997-03-27)
  

  gb
  
     <networking> (Great Britain) A country code for United
     Kingdom.  "uk" is generally used instead.
  
     (1999-01-27)
  

gb - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  GB
         GigaByte
         

  GB
         GuoBao [codepage]