Gb 
Gb
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Gb
gilbert
GB¹
Definition
GB (jē′bē′)
noun
GB²
Definition
GB
- gigabyte(s)
- Great Britain
GB (GigaByte)
Telecom Definition
A billion bytes, often shortened to gig in conversation. 1. Hard disks and flash drives measure computer storage in SI units, which are based on the base 10, or decimal, system, so GB is one billion (10 9 ) bytes, or 1,000,000,000 bytes. See also byte, decimal, and SI. 2. Internal computer memory is based on a base 2, or binary, number system.A GB of internal memory, therefore is 1,073,741,824 (2 30 ) bytes.The term GB comes from the fact that 1,073,741,824 is nominally 1,000,000,000. See also byte, G, and SI.
GB
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- space: TV recordings will typically take 1 Gb of disk space per hour.
- datum: And every month, astronomers download about 200 Gb of data from the HEASARC website - that's 200,000 floppy disks worth of data!
- memory: It is mounted on a SUN Enterprise 3000 with 6 processors and 1.5 Gb of memory.
- storage: In total we will have a combined raw capacity of about 940 Gb of disk storage.
Converse of object
- take: TV recordings will typically take 1 Gb of disk space per hour.
- allow: The eCommerce hosting account has been upgraded to allow 1 Gb of web space and provide 15 Gb of Bandwidth per month.
- add: The Russian Federation added 3.2 Gb to its stated reserves.
Noun used with modifier
- month: Enough to inspire quot course offered by month gb a second pallet.
- rally: If you enjoyed reading the archived version of which forum members did you see at rally gb?
Modifies a noun
- ipod: That figure goes up to 281 CDs on the 20 gb iPod ( which has a capacity of 18.5 gb ).
- euro: Set you'll tire gb euro number this act of.
- number: Set you'll tire gb euro number this act of.
- drive: If we format the 40 gb drive with fat32 or ntfs, the install hangs.
- mp3: As they are one of our top rated shops to buy 20 gb mp3 players in the UK.
- player: As they are one of our top rated shops to buy 20 gb mp3 players in the UK.
Preposition: in
- size: Super Extended Memory Support These changes are intended to provide support for extended memory pools up to 4 Gb in size.
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