| / English Dictionary |
GB
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An island comprising England and Scotland and Wales
Synonyms:
GB; Great Britain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)
Meronyms (parts of "GB"):
Scotland (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts)
Solway Firth (a large firth on the west coast of Britain between England and Scotland)
Meronyms (members of "GB"):
Brit; Britisher; Briton (a native or inhabitant of Great Britain)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
Instance hyponyms:
Albion (archaic name for England or Great Britain; used poetically)
Holonyms ("GB" is a part of...):
British Isles (Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes
Synonyms:
G; GB; GiB; gibibyte; gigabyte
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("GB" is a kind of...):
computer memory unit (a unit for measuring computer memory)
Meronyms (parts of "GB"):
M; MB; mebibyte; megabyte; MiB (a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes)
Holonyms ("GB" is a part of...):
TB; tebibyte; terabyte; TiB (a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A unit of information equal to 1000 megabytes or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bytes
Synonyms:
G; GB; gigabyte
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("GB" is a kind of...):
computer memory unit (a unit for measuring computer memory)
Meronyms (parts of "GB"):
M; MB; megabyte (a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes)
Holonyms ("GB" is a part of...):
TB; terabyte (a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A unit of information equal to 1000 megabits or 10^9 (1,000,000,000) bits
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("Gb" is a kind of...):
computer memory unit (a unit for measuring computer memory)
Meronyms (parts of "Gb"):
Mb; Mbit; megabit (a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobits or 10^6 (1,000,000) bits)
Holonyms ("Gb" is a part of...):
Tb; Tbit; terabit (a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabits or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bits)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("Gb" is a kind of...):
magnetomotive force unit (a unit of measurement of magnetomotive force)
Sense 6
Meaning:
A highly toxic chemical nerve agent that inhibits the activity of cholinesterase
Synonyms:
GB; sarin
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("GB" is a kind of...):
organophosphate nerve agent (any of a series of nerve agents containing organophosphate compounds first synthesized by German chemists in 1936; in World War II the Germans tested them in concentration camps but not on the battlefield; Iraq is alleged to have used them against Iran and against the Kurds)
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
