English dictionary: words starting with giga

Meanings of Giga:

combining form

(in units of measurement) denoting a factor of 109.

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Gigahertz

(in units of measurement) denoting a factor of 10⁹

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Gigahertz

prefix

1,000,000,000 times the stated unit

Usage examples:

Gigavolt, gigahertz, gigawatt

Meanings of Gigabit:

noun

A unit of information equal to one thousand million (109) or (strictly) 230 bits.

Meanings of Gigabits:

noun

A unit of information equal to one thousand million (109) or (strictly) 230 bits.

abbreviation

Gigabit(s).

Meanings of Gigabyte:

noun

A unit of information equal to one thousand million (109) or, strictly, 230 bytes.

Meanings of Gigabytes:

noun

A unit of information equal to one thousand million (109) or, strictly, 230 bytes.

Meanings of Gigahertz:

noun

A measure of frequency equivalent to one thousand million (109) cycles per second.

Meanings of Gigantic:

adjective

Of very great size or extent; huge or enormous.

Usage examples:

A gigantic concrete tower

Meanings of Gigantically:

adverb

In an extremely large way

Usage examples:

Their influence will increase gigantically in the future., it is a gigantically profitable corporat…

Meanings of Gigantism:

noun

Unusual or abnormal largeness.

Usage examples:

The dodo of mauritius (a giant pigeon) is a famous example of island gigantism.

Meanings of Gigantomachy:

noun

(in greek mythology) the struggle between the gods and the giants.

Usage examples:

A gigantomachy is a depiction of the ancient greek mythical war between gods and giants for rule of…

Meanings of Gigantopithecus:

noun

A very large fossil asian ape of the upper miocene to lower pleistocene epochs.

Usage examples:

A german paleontologist discovered gigantopithecus in 1935 when he picked up a strange, heavy tooth…

Meanings of Gigantosaurus:

noun

An enormous carnivorous dinosaur of the late cretaceous period, resembling the tyrannosaurs.

Usage examples:

Allain says mapusaurus is more closely related to the argentinian giganotosaurus than to the africa…

Meanings of Gigaton:

noun

A unit of explosive power equivalent to one (109) billion tons of tnt.

Usage examples:

Saturday's 8.8-magnitude quake unleashed about 50 gigatons of energy

Meanings of Gigatons:

noun

A unit of explosive power equivalent to one (109) billion tons of tnt.

Usage examples:

Saturday's 8.8-magnitude quake unleashed about 50 gigatons of energy

Meanings of Gigawatt:

noun

A unit of power equal to one billion (109) watts.

Meanings of Gigawatts:

noun

A unit of power equal to one billion (109) watts.