gigabyte

unit of digital information equal to one billion bytes or 1,000 megabytes
Intangible unit_of_information Q79738
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gigabyte

Summary

gigabyte is an unit of information[1]. gigabyte draws 622 Wikipedia views per month (unit_of_information category, ranking #4 of 38).[2]

Key Facts

  • gigabyte's instance of is recorded as unit of information[3].
  • gigabyte's measured physical quantity is recorded as information[4].
  • gigabyte's Commons category is recorded as Gigabyte[5].
  • gigabyte's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/039f0[6].
  • gigabyte's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300265874[7].
  • gigabyte's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/gigabyte[8].
  • gigabyte's different from is recorded as gibibyte[9].
  • gigabyte's different from is recorded as gigabit[10].
  • gigabyte's conversion to standard unit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q79726', 'amount': '+1000000'}[11].
  • gigabyte's conversion to standard unit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q79735', 'amount': '+1000'}[12].
  • gigabyte's conversion to standard unit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q8799', 'amount': '+1000000000'}[13].
  • gigabyte's conversion to standard unit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q8805', 'amount': '+8000000000'}[14].
  • gigabyte's conversion to standard unit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q79765', 'amount': '+0.93132257461'}[15].
  • gigabyte's MathWorld ID is recorded as Gigabyte[16].
  • gigabyte's QUDT unit ID is recorded as GigaBYTE[17].
  • gigabyte's wurvoc.org measure ID is recorded as gigabyte[18].
  • gigabyte's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as gigabyte[19].
  • gigabyte's unit symbol is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'GB'}[20].
  • gigabyte's unit symbol is recorded as {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'Гбайт'}[21].
  • gigabyte's unit symbol is recorded as {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'ГБ'}[22].
  • gigabyte's unit symbol is recorded as {'lang': 'fi', 'text': 'Gt'}[23].
  • gigabyte's unit symbol is recorded as {'lang': 'fr', 'text': 'Go'}[24].
  • gigabyte's unit symbol is recorded as {'lang': 'be-tarask', 'text': 'Гбайт'}[25].
  • gigabyte's unit symbol is recorded as {'lang': 'ca', 'text': 'GB'}[26].
  • gigabyte's unit symbol is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'GB'}[27].

Why It Matters

gigabyte draws 622 Wikipedia views per month (unit_of_information category, ranking #4 of 38).[2] gigabyte has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] gigabyte is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . JEDEC memory standards. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . GOST 8.417. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . GOST 8.417. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_gigabyte_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{gigabyte}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/gigabyte}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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