See Also: giga-(medicine)
giga-(dictionary)
giga-(dictionary)

giga- (iou)



giga- combining form. M20.
[from Greek gigas giant.]
Used in names of units etc. to denote a factor of 109 (one thousand million), as gigahertz, gigametre; also loosely, in some computing terms, used to denote a factor of 230, as gigabit. Abbreviation G.
gigabyte noun (Computing) a unit of information equal to one thousand million (109) bytes or (strictly) 230 bytes L20.