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gigabyte | g |

As a noun gigabyte

is gigabyte (one billion bytes).

As a letter g is

the seventh letter of the.

As a symbol g is

symbol for the prefix giga-.

gigabyte

English

(wikipedia gigabyte)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.
  • (computing, colloquial) Imprecisely, a gibibyte or 10243 (1,073,741,824) bytes. SI symbol: GiB, computing symbol: GB.

    • Coordinate terms

    * Previous: megabyte * Next: terabyte

    Related terms

    * gibibyte * gigabit

    Synonyms

    * gig

    References

    * The IEC explanation of its definitions ----

    g

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=f, next=h, image= (wikipedia g)

    Letter

  • The seventh letter of the .

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * (IPA): * Greek forms: * Guitar Chord - G - Played 3 3 0 0 2 3

    Symbol

    (head)
  • Symbol for the gram , an of mass.
  • Symbol for gravitational acceleration , approximately 9.81 m/s2 or 32 ft/sec2 at the earth's surface. Distinguished from G.
  • (voiced velar stop).
  • (label) gluon

    • See also

    * * {{Letter , page=G , NATO=Golf , Morse=––· , Character=G7 , Braille=? }} Image:Latin G.png, Capital and lowercase versions of G , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter G.png, Uppercase and lowercase G in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----