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Meaning of GB

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  1. [n]  a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland
  2. [n]  a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns
  3. [n]  a unit of information equal to one billion (1,000,000,000) bytes or one thousand megabytes
 
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 Synonyms: Britain, Gi, gigabyte, gilbert, Great Britain, UK, United Kingdom
 
 See Also: Battle of Britain, British Isles, Cambria, Common Market, computer memory unit, Cymru, EC, EEC, England, EU, Europe, European Community, European Economic Community, European Union, kingdom, magnetomotive force unit, MB, megabyte, NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Northern Ireland, Scotland, TB, terabyte, Wales

 

 

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Computing Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. gigabytes or gigabits - see MB. Giga stands for 10^9 - a US billion, or in computing for 2^30.

    The text of a thirty volume encyclopaedia would require about one gigabyte of ASCII storage.

  2. Gigabit. 10^9 bits. Might also be wrongly used for gigabyte (GB).

  3. (Great Britain) A country code for United Kingdom. "uk" is generally used instead.

 

 

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