gigabyte

See also: Gigabyte

English

Etymology

From giga- +‎ byte.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/, /ˈd͡ʒɪɡəbaɪt/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

gigabyte (plural gigabytes)

1. (computing, formal) One billion (10⁹, or 1,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 megabytes.
   • 1981, IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Description and User's Guide, IBM, page 1:

     The IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage is a disk storage device with a storage capacity of 2.5 gigabytes (billion bytes) per unit, an increase of almost four times the capacity of the IBM 3350 Direct Access Storage.

2. (computing, informal) a gibibyte.

Synonyms

• GB
• gig (informal)

Coordinate terms

• Previous: megabyte
• Next: terabyte

Related terms

• gibibit
• gibibyte
• gigabit

Translations

one billion bytes

• Arabic: غِيغَابَايْت m (ḡīḡabayt)
• Armenian: գիգաբայտ (gigabayt)
• Azerbaijani: giqabayt
• Belarusian: гігаба́йт m (hihabájt)
• Bulgarian: ги́габайт m (gígabajt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (formal) 千兆字節 / 千兆字节 (qiān zhàozìjié), (common abbreviation, pronounced like English) GB, G (zh)

• Cornish: gigabayt m
• Czech: gigabyte m, gigabajt m
• Dutch: gigabyte (nl) m
• Esperanto: gigabajto, gigabitoko
• Finnish: gigatavu (fi)
• French: gigaoctet (fr)
• Galician: xigabyte m
• Georgian: გიგაბაიტი (gigabaiṭi)
• German: Gigabyte (de) n
• Greek: γκιγκαμπάιτ n (gkigkampáit), γιγαδυφιοσυλλαβή n (gigadyfiosyllaví)
• Hebrew: גיגבייט m (gigabayt)
• Hindi: गीगाबाइट m (gīgābāiṭ)
• Hungarian: gigabyte (hu)
• Icelandic: gígabæti
• Japanese: ギガバイト (ja) (gigabaito)
• Korean: 기가바이트 (gigabaiteu)
• Macedonian: гигабајт m (gigabajt)
• Malay: gigabait
• Marathi: गिगाबाइट m (gigābāiṭ)
• Navajo: dį́į́łtsohʼííłké
• Persian: گیگابایت (gigâbâyt)
• Polish: gigabajt (pl) m
• Portuguese: gigabyte (pt) m
• Russian: гигаба́йт (ru) m (gigabájt)
• Slovak: gigabajt m
• Spanish: gigabyte (es) m
• Swedish: gigabyte (sv) c
• Thai: จิกะไบต์ (th) (jì-gà-bái), กิกะไบต์ (th) (gì-gà-bái)
• Turkish: gigabayt
• Ukrainian: гігаба́йт m (hihabájt)
• Uyghur: گىگابايت (gigabayt)
• Yiddish: גיגאַבײַט (gigabayt)

Czech

Alternative forms

• gigabajt

Etymology

From giga- +‎ byte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɪɡabajt]

Noun

gigabyte m inan

1. gigabyte

Declension

Declension of gigabyte (hard masculine inanimate foreign)

	singular	plural
nominative	gigabyte	gigabyty
genitive	gigabytu	gigabytů
dative	gigabytu	gigabytům
accusative	gigabyte	gigabyty
vocative	gigabyte	gigabyty
locative	gigabytu	gigabytech
instrumental	gigabytem	gigabyty

Further reading

• byte in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Italian

Etymology

From giga- +‎ byte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.ɡaˈba.it/
• Rhymes: -ait

Noun

gigabyte m (invariable)

1. (computing) gigabyte

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English gigabyte.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌʒiɡaˈbajt(ʃ)(i)/

Noun

gigabyte m (plural gigabytes)

1. (computing) gigabyte (one billion bytes)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: GB, giga

Coordinate terms

• Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

Related terms

• gigabit
• gibibyte

Spanish

Noun

gigabyte m (plural gigabytes)

1. gigabyte

Further reading

• “gigabyte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10