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gb [n]

1)	a highly toxic chemical nerve agent that inhibits the activity of cholinesterase

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organophosphate_nerve_agent

2)	a unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns

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magnetomotive_force_unit

3)	a unit of information equal to one billion (1,073,741,824) bytes or 1024 megabytes

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t computer_memory_unit mb

4)	a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland

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britain great_britain uk united_kingdom united_kingdom_of_great_britain_and_northern_ireland

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kingdom british_isles common_market nato potted fly pawky dinky dishy non-u u starkers boss-eyed canty common_or_garden groovy gammy all-mains niffy swingeing shirty crisp po-faced peckish dickey potty whacking long-dated short-dated take-away red-brick grotty post-free buckshee made-up chuffed jumped-up toffee-nosed major minor a_billion a_trillion tod bloody-minded bolshy capital spiffing top-flight ropey gobsmacked jiggered buttoned-up brummagem ratable drained whacked manky tinpot fuggy clapped_out jolly balls-up clanger clawback lucky_dip flit rustication perambulation fare-stage pony-trekking rugby fives bagatelle tombola ludo shove-ha'penny lucky_dip piss-up rag panto doddle national_service minister headship costing ministry_of_transportation_test fire_watching snogging zizz square-bashing rub_up shufti lie-in point_duty national_assistance dole boot_sale invigilation aggro punch-up go-slow battle_of_britain arterial_road backbench bar betting_shop bin_liner boot bottle_bank 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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing: (http://www.foldoc.org/, Editor Denis Howe)

gigabytes or gigabits - see MB. Giga stands for 10^9 - a US billion, or in computing for 2^30.

The text of a thirty volume encyclopaedia would require about one gigabyte of ASCII storage.

(1997-03-27)

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