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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.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits

Etymologies

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giga- +‎ bit

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  • 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