gigabyte

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

giga- +‎ byte

Pronunciation

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

Noun

gigabyte (plural gigabytes)

1. (SI) 10⁹, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes, as opposed to a gibibyte. SI symbol: GB
2. (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

Translations

one billion bytes

• Arabic: غيغابايت (ar) (ghiighabayt) m
• Armenian: գիգաբայտ (hy) (gigabayt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (formal) 千兆字節 (cmn), 千兆字节 (cmn) (qiān zhàozìjié), (common abbreviation, pronounced like English) GB (cmn)

• Esperanto: gigabitoko (eo)
• Finnish: gigatavu (fi)
• French: gigaoctet (fr)
• German: Gigabyte (de) n

• Hebrew: גיגבייט (he) (gigabayt) m
• Icelandic: gígabæti (is)
• Japanese: ギガバイト (ja) (gigabaito)
• Korean: 기가바이트 (ko) (gigabaiteu)
• Malay: gigabait (ms)
• Navajo: dį́į́łtsohʼííłké
• Polish: gigabajt (pl) m
• Portuguese: gigabyte (pt) m
• Russian: гигабайт (ru) (gigabájt) m
• Yiddish: גיגאבייט (yi)

References

• The IEC explanation of its definitions

---

Italian

Etymology

giga- +‎ byte

Noun

gigabyte m (invariable)

1. (computing) gigabyte