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gigabit

One billion bits. Also Gb, Gbit and G-bit. See giga and space/time.


gigabit [′gigĀ·ə‚bit]
(communications)
One billion bits, or 1,000,000,000 bits.

(unit)gigabit - 2^30 bits, 1,073,741,824 bits.

See prefix.


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