gigabyte

giga- +‎ byte

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/, /ˈdʒɪɡəbaɪt/

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.

• GB, ㎇
• gig

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• gibibyte
• gigabit

• The IEC explanation of its definitions

giga- +‎ byte

gigabyte m (invariable)

1. (computing) gigabyte

Borrowed from English gigabyte.

• IPA^(key): /ˌʒiɡaˈbajt(ʃ)(i)/

gigabyte m (plural gigabytes)

1. (computing) gigabyte (one billion bytes)

• Abbreviations: GB, giga

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

• gigabit
• gibibyte

gigabyte m (plural gigabytes)

1. gigabyte