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gigabit

n. 1 109 bits, a thousand million (1,000,000,000) bits. 2 230 (1,073,741,824) bits.

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The gigabit is a multiple of the unit bit for digital information or computer storage. The prefix giga (symbol G) is defined in the International System of Units (SI) as a multiplier of 10 (1 billion, short scale), and therefore

1 gigabit = = .

The gigabit has the unit symbol Gbit or Gb.

Using the common byte size of 8 bits, 1 Gbit is equal to 125 megabytes (MB) or approximately 119 mebibytes (MiB).

The gigabit is closely related to the gibibit, a unit multiple derived from the binary prefix gibi (symbol Gi) of the same order of magnitude, which is equal to = , or approximately 7% larger than the gigabit.

Usage examples of "gigabit".

There is an etiquette to the gigabit space that we machine-stored people inhabit.

But I just as well might have been, because everything that happened on the Wheel, like everything that happened anywhere in the Galaxy, was recorded somewhere in gigabit space, and thus available to those who had been vastened.

Human beings had gone the way of calculators and computers and servo-mechanisms, all the way to the supple and enormous gigabit webs that nurtured such Artificial Intelligences as Albert Einstein.

She just hovered silently behind me as I stood there, invisible in gigabit space, staring at the woman I had mourned for most of my life.

Portable-Essie, my faithful wife, lover, advisor, friend, confidante, and co-construct in gigabit space.

I had died not long before, and that was the first time I had appeared in public in a holographic body, with my essential self stored in gigabit space.

Programs and people in gigabit time tracked down the source of the message and located it on an island called Moorea in the Pacific Ocean, and that happened fast enough to suit even me.

But neither were Heechee Ancestor-storage and our own gigabit net compatible at first.

Oniko putting her pod against the terminals of the commset and Sneezy following with his, I thought there was only a single being sharing gigabit space with me, and after that I thought there were more.

Measured by gigabit time, it was well over ten-to-the-ninth milliseconds, which is about as much time, by meat standards, as my whole meat life had been before I was vastened.

Also I have subsumed into me the programs of most of our colleagues, as well as data-seeking circuits that are presently engaged in trying to establish connection with the gigabit net.

He saved the file onto a one gigabit flash drive, along with the two recordings.

The dream of gigabit networking straight to the brain was vaporwarebut theoretically possible.

For five years on Naxos gigabits of information were pumped into her, and her emotions were armored by a Code and a Doctrine.