different between gigabit vs gigabyte

English

Alternative forms

• Gbit

Etymology

giga- +? bit

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?????b?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?????b?t/, /?d????b?t/

Noun

gigabit (plural gigabits)

1. 10⁹ bits, a thousand million (1,000,000,000) bits.
2. 2³⁰ (1,073,741,824) bits.

Synonyms

• (2³⁰): gibibit

Related terms

• gigabyte

Translations

Czech

Etymology

giga- +? bit

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [????ab?t]

Noun

gigabit m

1. gigabit

Further reading

• gigabit in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu

Italian

Etymology

giga- +? bit

Noun

gigabit m (invariable)

1. gigabit

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English gigabit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?a?bit??(i)/, /??i?a?bit(i)/

Noun

gigabit m (plural gigabits)

1. (computing) gigabit (one billion bits)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: Gbit, Gb

Coordinate terms

• Multiples of the bit: kilobit, megabit, gigabit, terabit, petabit, exabit, zettabit, yottabit

Related terms

• gigabyte
• gibibit

English

Etymology

giga- +? byte

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?????ba?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?????ba?t/, /?d????ba?t/

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• GB, ?
• gig

Coordinate terms

• Previous: megabyte
• Next: terabyte

Related terms

• gibibyte
• gigabit

Translations

References

• The IEC explanation of its definitions

Czech

Alternative forms

• gigabajt

Etymology

giga- +? byte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [????abajt]

Noun

gigabyte m

1. gigabyte

Further reading

• byte in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Italian

Etymology

giga- +? byte

Noun

gigabyte m (invariable)

1. (computing) gigabyte

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English gigabyte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??i?a?bajt(?)(i)/

Noun

gigabyte m (plural gigabytes)

1. (computing) gigabyte (one billion bytes)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: GB, giga

Coordinate terms

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

Related terms

• gigabit
• gibibyte

Spanish

Noun

gigabyte m (plural gigabytes)

1. gigabyte