gigabyte

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English

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Etymology

From giga- +‎ byte.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɡɪɡəbaɪt/, /ˈd͡ʒɪɡəbaɪt/

Noun

gigabyte (plural gigabytes)

  1. (computing, formal) One billion (109, or 1,000,000,000) bytes or 1,000 megabytes.
  2. (computing, informal) a gibibyte.

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Czech

Alternative forms

Etymology

From giga- +‎ byte.

Pronunciation

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.

Noun

gigabyte m (invariable)

  1. (computing) gigabyte

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English gigabyte.

Pronunciation

Noun

gigabyte m (plural gigabytes)

  1. (computing) gigabyte (one billion bytes)

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Spanish

Noun

gigabyte m (plural gigabytes)

  1. gigabyte

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