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GB en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of gigabyte.
   alt of gigabyte
   • MB equals 10⁶ bytes and GB equals 10⁹ bytes 1989, IBM 3390 Direct Access Storage Reference Summary, IBM, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2024, page 7:
   • For those who aren’t aware, a Nitro Basic subscription costs $3 a month. Nitro users, who pay $10 a month, get to stream videos in 4K and use emojis in channels. In comparison, messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram offer a 2 GB file limit. 2024 September 4, Anurag Singh, “Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive””, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2025:
   • We’ve found the T7 Touch SSD to be fast, secure and quite portable. But the inclusion of a fingerprint sensor for security onboard increased the price: $129.99 for 500GBs, $229.99 for 1TB and $399.99 for 2TB. 2020 May 19, Jacob Krol, “Samsung’s T7 SSD is a fast external drive at a cheaper price”, in CNN, archived from the original on 30 Dec 2025:
   • […] an Amazon S3 bucket can be used to store hundreds of GBs of data to start with […] 2023, Gareth Eagar, Data Engineering with AWS, page 517:
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, informal) Abbreviation of gibibyte.
   alt of gibibyte
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3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of gallbladder.
   alt of gallbladder
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, informal, initialism) Initialism of goofball (“a barbiturate”).
   alt of goofball
   • Goofballs usually produce a quiet drowsiness, but also at times a tense aggressiveness that can be frighteningly unpredictable. Irene's behavior when she is high on GBs, which is most of the time, has created such havoc in the neighborhood restaurants that they no longer let her in. 1965 February 26, James Mills, “The World of Needle Park”, in Time, volume 58, number 8, page 82:
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of grain boundary.
   alt of grain boundary
6. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of green bean galaxy.
   alt of green bean galaxy

Forms

Synonyms

GiB

Translations (4)

ti ጊባ (gigabyte) · fr Go (gigabyte) · ka გბაიტი (gigabyte) · ka გბ (gigabyte)

GB en · PROPN

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Great Britain.
   alt of Great Britain
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Gilgit-Baltistan.
   alt of Gilgit-Baltistan
3. (abbreviation, alt-of) Abbreviation of Green Bay in Wisconsin, USA.
   alt of Green Bay in Wisconsin
   alt of USA
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Game Boy.
   alt of Game Boy
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of German agent B (US designation for the nerve gas sarin).
   alt of German agent B
6. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Guantanamo Bay.
   alt of Guantanamo Bay
7. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of Government and Binding.
   alt of Government and Binding

GB en · X

Meanings

1. (Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism) Initialism of God bless.
   alt of God bless

Relateds

GB galaxy