gigabyte

  1. Noun.  (context, SI) 109, one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes, as opposed to a gibibyte. SI symbol: GB.
  2. Noun.  (context, computing) Imprecisely, a gibibyte or 10243 (1,073,741,824) bytes. SI symbol: GiB, computing symbol: GB.

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