3 definitions found for gigabyte

gigabyte n 1: a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes [syn: gigabyte, G, GB] 2: a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes [syn: gigabyte, gibibyte, G, GB, GiB]

gigabyte noun Date: 1975 1024 megabytes or 1,073,741,824 bytes; also one billion bytes

gigabyte (gigabytes) In computing, a gigabyte is one thousand and twenty-four megabytes. N-COUNT