GB : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: GB	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for GB
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
GB n a highly toxic chemical nerve agent that inhibits the activity of cholinesterase Synonym(s): sarin, GB a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns Synonym(s): gilbert, Gb, Gi a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits Synonym(s): gigabit, Gbit, Gb a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes Synonym(s): gigabyte, G, GB a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes Synonym(s): gigabyte, gibibyte, G, GB, GiB an island comprising England and Scotland and Wales Synonym(s): Great Britain, GB
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [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 (15Feb98) [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 (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
gb (Great Britain) A {country code} for United Kingdom. "{uk}" is generally used instead. (1999-01-27)