From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a highly toxic chemical nerve agent that inhibits the activity of cholinesterase [syn: {sarin}]
2: a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns [syn: {gilbert}, {Gi}]
3: a unit of information equal to one billion (1,073,741,824) bytes or 1024 megabytes [syn: {gigabyte}, {G}]
4: a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland [syn: {United Kingdom}, {UK}, {Great Britain}, {Britain}, {United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
GB {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. (1997-03-27)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Gb Gigabit. 10^9 {bit}s. Might also be wrongly used for {gigabyte} ({GB}). (1997-03-27)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
gb (Great Britain) A {country code} for United Kingdom. "{uk}" is generally used instead. (1999-01-27)
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