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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
gb is a noun meaning "a highly toxic chemical nerve agent that inhibits the activity of cholinesterase". It carries 6 recorded senses.
a highly toxic chemical nerve agent that inhibits the activity of cholinesterase
a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns
a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits
a unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes
an island comprising England and Scotland and Wales
United Kingdom
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for gb come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.