gib

Other forms of gib

plural

gibs·

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.

Questions about gib

What does gib mean?

gib means "a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in gib?

gib has 1 syllable: gib. In IPA it is /ˈɡɪb/.

What is another word for gib?

Close synonyms include gigabyte, gibibyte, G, GB. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gib a common word?

gib is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.