Gigabyte

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gigabyte
       n : a unit of information equal to one billion (1,073,741,824)
           bytes or 1024 megabytes [syn: {G}, {GB}]

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



  gigabyte
       
           2^30 = 1,073,741,824 {byte}s = 1024 {megabytes}.
       
          Roughly the amount of data required to encode a human gene
          sequence (including all the redundant codons).
       
          See {prefix}.
       
          (1995-09-29)