Gigabyte
[gig-uh-bahyt, jig-] /ˈgɪg əˌbaɪt, ˈdʒɪg-/
noun, Computers.
1.
a measure of storage capacity equal to 2 30 (1024) .
/ˈɡɪɡəˌbaɪt; ˈɡaɪɡəˌbaɪt/
noun
1.
(computing) one thousand and twenty-four megabytes See also giga- (sense 2)
n.
1982, from giga- + byte.
gigabyte
(gĭg’ə-bīt’)
unit
2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes = 1024 megabytes.
Roughly the amount of data required to encode a human gene sequence (including all the redundant codons).
See prefix.
(1995-09-29)
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