gigabyte

gigabyte

See also: Gigabyte

English

Etymology

giga- +‎ byte

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/

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

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) A gibibyte or 1024³ (1,073,741,824) bytes.

Synonyms

• GB
• gig (informal)

Coordinate terms

• Previous: megabyte
• Next: terabyte

Related terms

• gibibyte
• gigabit

Translations

one billion bytes

Arabic: غِيغَابَايْت‎ m (ḡīḡabayt) Armenian: գիգաբայտ (gigabayt) Azerbaijani: giqabayt Belarusian: гігаба́йт m (hihabájt) Bulgarian: ги́габайт m (gígabajt) Chinese: Mandarin: (formal) 千兆字節／千兆字节 (qiān zhàozìjié), (common abbreviation, pronounced like English) GB Cornish: gigabayt m Czech: gigabyte m, gigabajt m Dutch: gigabyte (nl) m Esperanto: gigabajto, gigabitoko Finnish: gigatavu (fi) French: gigaoctet (fr) Galician: xigabyte m Georgian: გიგაბაიტი (gigabaiṭi) German: Gigabyte (de) n Greek: γκιγκαμπάιτ n (gkigkampáit), γιγαδυφιοσυλλαβή n (gigadyfiosyllaví) Hebrew: גיגבייט‎ m (gigabayt) Hindi: गीगाबाइट m (gīgābāiṭ) Hungarian: gigabyte (hu) Icelandic: gígabæti Japanese: ギガバイト (gigabaito) Korean: 기가바이트 (gigabaiteu) Macedonian: гигабајт m (gigabajt) Malay: gigabait Navajo: dį́į́łtsohʼííłké Persian: گیگابایت‎ (gigâbayt) Polish: gigabajt (pl) m Portuguese: gigabyte (pt) m Russian: гигаба́йт (ru) m (gigabájt) Slovak: gigabajt m Spanish: gigabyte (es) m Swedish: gigabyte (sv) c Thai: จิกะไบต์ (th) (jì-gà-bái), กิกะไบต์ (th) (gì-gà-bái) Turkish: gigabayt Ukrainian: гігаба́йт m (hihabájt) Uyghur: گىگابايت‎ (gigabayt) Yiddish: גיגאַבײַט‎ (gigabayt)

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Czech

Alternative forms

• gigabajt

Etymology

giga- +‎ byte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɪɡabajt]

Noun

gigabyte m

1. gigabyte

Further reading

• byte in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

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Italian

Etymology

From giga- +‎ byte.

Noun

gigabyte m (invariable)

1. (computing) gigabyte

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English gigabyte.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

gigabyte m (plural gigabytes)

1. (computing) gigabyte (one billion bytes)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: GB, giga

Coordinate terms

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

Related terms

• gigabit
• gibibyte

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Spanish

Noun

gigabyte m (plural gigabytes)

1. gigabyte

Further reading

• “gigabyte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014