gigabyte

2 definitions found

gigabyte - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  gigabyte
      n 1: a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9
           (1,000,000,000) bytes [syn: gigabyte, G, GB]
      2: a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30
         (1,073,741,824) bytes [syn: gigabyte, gibibyte, G,
         GB, GiB]

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

  gigabyte
  gig
  
     <unit> 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes = 1024 megabytes.
  
     Roughly the amount of data required to encode a human gene
     sequence (including all the redundant codons).
  
     See prefix.
  
     (1995-09-29)