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Translation of gigabyte – English–Norwegian dictionary

gigabyte

   /ˈɡɪɡəˌbaɪt, ˈdʒɪɡ-/ (also gig /ɡɪɡ/) informal
a unit of computer memory equal to about a billion bytes
gigabyte [ masculine ]
I added 60 gig of memory. Jeg la til 60 gigabyte minne.

(Translation of gigabyte from the GLOBAL English–Norwegian Dictionary © 2016 K Dictionaries Ltd)

Translation of gigabyte | PASSWORD English–Norwegian Dictionary

gigabyte

 
noun
  /ˈɡiɡəˌbait/
computing
a unit for measuring computer memory or data, equal to 1,024 megabytes.
gigabyte

(Translation of gigabyte from the PASSWORD English–Norwegian Dictionary © 2014 K Dictionaries Ltd)

Examples of gigabyte

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The record and its key can both be up to four gigabytes long.
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I became rather vexed two weeks ago as, although it is supposed to have a 1.2 gigabyte drive, it was chock-a-block.
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Company responses to press inquiries suggest a limit of several hundred gigabytes per month.
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The inconsistency is that gigabit is never (or very rarely) used with the binary interpretation of the prefix, while gigabyte is sometimes used this way.
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Typical granularities range from a single physical disk down to some small subset (multiples of megabytes or gigabytes) of the physical disk.
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Up to 38 gigabytes of data storage was possible.
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As much as 10 gigabytes of data was taken, including the personal information of police officers from numerous jurisdictions.
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This does not count the additional 7.37% of capacity available from the difference between the decimal and binary gigabyte.
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Translations of gigabyte

in Chinese (Traditional)
十億位元組,吉位元組…
in Chinese (Simplified)
千兆字节,吉字节…
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gigabyte, giga [masculine]…
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bilgisayarın depolayabileceği bilginin miktarını ölçme birimi, cigabayt…
giga-octet [masculine], gigaoctet…
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