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Gigabyte vs Gig - What's the difference?

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Gig is a synonym of gigabyte.



As nouns the difference between gigabyte and gig

is that gigabyte is 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes. SI symbol: GB while gig is a performing engagement by a musical group; or, generally, any job or role for a musician or performer.

As a verb gig is

to fish or catch with a gig, or fish spear.

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 ----

    gig

    English

    Etymology 1

    Akin to Old Norse .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal, music) A performing engagement by a musical group; or, generally, any job or role for a musician or performer.
    • I caught one of the Rolling Stones' first gigs in Richmond .
    Hey, when are we gonna get that hotel gig again?
    Our guitar player had another gig so we had to get a sub.
  • (informal, by extension) Any job; especially one that is temporary; or alternately, one that is very desirable.
    • I had this gig as a file clerk but it wasn't my style so I left .
    Hey, that guy's got a great gig over at the bike shop. He hardly works all day!
  • A two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage.
  • * 1967 , William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner , Vintage 2004, p. 77:
    • the room grew stifling warm and vapor clung to the windowpanes, blurring the throng of people still milling outside the courthouse, a row of tethered gigs and buggies, distant pine trees in a scrawny, ragged grove.
  • (archaic) A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals.
  • (South England) A six-oared sea rowing boat commonly found in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
  • (US, military) A demerit received for some infraction of military dress or deportment codes.
    • I received gigs for having buttons undone.

    Verb

  • To fish or catch with a gig, or fish spear.
  • To engage in musical performances.
    • The Stones were gigging around Richmond at the time
  • To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending.
    • His older cousin was just gigging him about being in love with that girl from school.
  • (US, military) To impose a demerit for an infraction of a dress or deportment code.
    • His sergeant gigged him for an unmade bunk.

    Etymology 2

    A shortening of (gigabyte).

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (colloquial, computing) A gigabyte.
    • This picture is almost a gig ; don't you wanna resize it?
    How much music does it hold?'' ''A hundred and twenty gigs .

    Etymology 3

    (etyl) gigge.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A playful or wanton girl; a giglot.

    • Etymology 4

    Probably from (etyl) (lena) .

    Verb

  • To engender.
    • (Dryden)
    (Webster 1913)

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