gibibyte
nounUK /ˈɡɪb.i.baɪt/
US /ˈɡɪb.i.baɪt/
A gibibyte is a way to measure computer memory that is a little bigger than a billion bytes.
The new laptop has sixteen gibibytes of memory for running programs.
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2. A unit of digital information equal to 2^30 bytes, or 1,073,741,824 bytes.
The file size was reported as 2 gibibytes by the system tool.
3. A standard binary-prefix unit used in computing to avoid confusion with the decimal gigabyte.
Engineers prefer gibibytes when they need exact binary measurements.
4. A quantity of data storage roughly equivalent to one thousand and twenty-four mebibytes.
The backup archive took up about one gibibyte of space.