Gib vs Gigabyte - What's the difference?
gib | gigabyte |
A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place.
A castrated male cat or ferret.
A male cat; a tomcat.
To fasten in place with a gib.
(lb) Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.
(lb) To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs.
(SI) 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB
* 1981 , IBM,
(computing, colloquial) Imprecisely, a gibibyte or 10243 (1,073,741,824) bytes. SI symbol: GiB, computing symbol: GB.
As nouns the difference between gib and gigabyte
is that gib is a bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place while gigabyte is 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB.As a verb gib
is to fasten in place with a gib.gib
English
Etymology 1
(18th century). Perhaps abbreviated from (m), the name of the cat in the old story of Reynard the Fox'', in the ''Romaunt of the Rose , etc.Noun
(en noun)Verb
Etymology 2
Shortened from giblet.Noun
(en noun)Verb
Anagrams
* (l), (l) * (l) ----gigabyte
English
(wikipedia gigabyte)Noun
(en noun)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.
Coordinate terms
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