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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

gigabyte gig (GB or colloquially "gig") A unit of data equal to one billion bytes but see binary prefix for other definitions. A gigabyte is 1000^3 bytes or 1000 megabytes. A human gene sequence (including all the redundant codons) contains about 1.5 gigabytes of data. 1000 gigabytes are one terabyte. See prefix. Human genome data content (http://bitesizebio.com/articles/how-much-information-is-stored-in-the-human-genome/). (2013-11-03)