gigabyte

Definition of Gigabyte in English :

1. g, gb, gigabyte

a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes

2. g, gb, gib, gibibyte, gigabyte

a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Gigabyte

noun

computing

one thousand and twenty-four megabytes

noun

1.

a unit of storage capacity in a computer system, equal to 1,073,741,824 (230) bytes

2. Loosely

one billion bytes

n.

1. A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 megabytes (2³⁰ bytes).

2. One billion bytes.