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GIB

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: gibbed    , gibbing   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A castrated tomcat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("gib" is a kind of...):

tom; tomcat (male cat)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes

Synonyms:

G; GB; GiB; gibibyte; gigabyte

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("GiB" is a kind of...):

computer memory unit (a unit for measuring computer memory)

Meronyms (parts of "GiB"):

M; MB; mebibyte; megabyte; MiB (a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes)

Holonyms ("GiB" is a part of...):

TB; tebibyte; terabyte; TiB (a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes)

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