GB

6 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  GB
       n 1: a highly toxic chemical nerve agent that inhibits the
            activity of cholinesterase [syn: {sarin}]
       2: a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns
          [syn: {gilbert}, {Gi}]
       3: a unit of information equal to one billion (1,073,741,824)


          bytes or 1024 megabytes [syn: {gigabyte}, {G}]
       4: a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the
          British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales
          and Northern Ireland [syn: {United Kingdom}, {UK}, {Great
          Britain}, {Britain}, {United Kingdom of Great Britain and
          Northern Ireland}]

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  GB
       GigaByte
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  GB
       GuoBao [codepage]
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  GB
       
           {gigabytes} or {gigabits} - see {MB}.  Giga stands for
          10^9 - a US billion, or in computing for 2^30.
       
          The text of a thirty volume encyclopaedia would require about
          one gigabyte of {ASCII} storage.
       
          (1997-03-27)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Gb
       
           Gigabit.  10^9 {bit}s.  Might also be wrongly used for
          {gigabyte} ({GB}).
       
          (1997-03-27)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  gb
       
           (Great Britain) A {country code} for United
          Kingdom.  "{uk}" is generally used instead.
       
          (1999-01-27)