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Define the word gigabyte

"gigabyte" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"

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

"gigabyte" foldoc "The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)"

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