Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One billion bits.
- noun 1,073,741,824 (230) bits.
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- noun 109
bits , a thousand million (1,000,000,000)bits . - noun 230 (1,073,741,824)
bits .
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- noun a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits
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Examples
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The communications chips can transfer information through optical fibres at a blistering 25 gigabits per second (a gigabit is a billion bits).
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The communications chips can transfer information through optical fibres at a blistering 25 gigabits per second (a gigabit is a billion bits).
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So look for routers that offer not just 10/100M (megabit) LAN ports but 10/100/1000M - otherwise known as "gigabit" - LAN ports.
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So look for routers that offer not just 10/100M (megabit) LAN ports but 10/100/1000M - otherwise known as "gigabit" - LAN ports.
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So look for routers that offer not just 10/100M (megabit) LAN ports but 10/100/1000M - otherwise known as "gigabit" - LAN ports.
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Under the new rules, schools will be encouraged to upgrade to 1 gigabit, which is a thousand times faster than the 1 megabit service that many schools use today.
Larry Magid: FCC Modernizes Broadband & Mobile Access for Schools & Libraries 2010
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Under the new rules, schools will be encouraged to upgrade to 1 gigabit, which is a thousand times faster than the 1 megabit service that many schools use today.
Larry Magid: FCC Modernizes Broadband & Mobile Access for Schools & Libraries 2010
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Not to mention, the idea of gigabit data flow is a tantalizing prospect indeed.
Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now Clay Dillow 2010
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Not to mention, the idea of gigabit data flow is a tantalizing prospect indeed.
Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now 2010
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Once services such as gigabit ethernet are accessible, users will be able to transmit as much as they receive, making residential servers a reality.
alexz commented on the word gigabit
it's a word to describe that your internet connection has a gigabit per second data rate. a gigabit connection. gigabit speeds
January 5, 2013