gibibyte

Other forms of gibibyte

plural

gibibytes·

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 gibibyte

What does gibibyte mean?

gibibyte means "a unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes".

How many syllables are in gibibyte?

gibibyte has 3 syllables: gi-bi-byte. The stress falls on "gi".

What is another word for gibibyte?

Close synonyms include gigabyte, G, GB, GiB. 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 gibibyte a common word?

gibibyte 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.