English

Noun
gigabyte (plural gigabytes)

1. (SI) One billion (1,000,000,000) bytes, as opposed to a gibibyte. SI symbol: GB
2. context|computing|colloquial Imprecisely, a gibibyte or 1024³ (1,073,741,824) bytes. SI symbol: GiB?, computing symbol: GB.

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Translations
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Chinese: �亿�� (shí yì zì jié)
French: gigaoctet
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Hebrew: �������|�ִּ��ָ�ַּ�ְ� (gigabayt) m
Russian: гигабай� m

References
[http://www.iec.ch/online_news/etech/arch_2003/etech_0503/focus.htm| The IEC explanation of its definitions]

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