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A slang term for a musical engagement A contraction for gigabyte An archaic term for a type of light carriage A type of spear A similarly designed type of fishing tackle A contraction for Captain's Gig, a type of boat. This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
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Gigabyte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (518 words)
A gigabyte (derived from the SI prefix giga-) is a unit of information or computer storage equal to one billion bytes.
It is commonly abbreviated GB in writing (not to be confused with Gb, which is used for gigabit) and gig in writing or speech.
In speech, gigabyte is often informally abbreviated to gig , as in "This is a ten-gig hard drive".
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