gigabit
gigabit — 名詞
- gigabitsingular
- gigabitsplural
1. a unit of digital information equal to one billion bits (1,000,000,000 bits, or
吉位元
電腦資料量單位，等於十億位元
a unit of digital information equal to one billion bits (1,000,000,000 bits, or about 125 megabytes), most often used to describe internet connection speeds or the capacity of a computer network.
Ayana signed up for a fibre-optic plan that offers one gigabit per second download speeds.
Ayana 申辦了一條光纖方案，下載速度最高達每秒一吉位元。
collocation: gigabit per second
The office IT team installed a ten-gigabit switch so every desk could stream video smoothly.
公司 IT 團隊安裝了一台十吉位元交換器，讓每個辦公桌都能流暢播放影片。
combining form: ten-gigabit
Mateo connected his computer to the router with a gigabit ethernet cable for fast transfer.
Mateo 用一條吉位元乙太網路線把電腦接到路由器上，以達到快速的資料傳輸。
Reema's gigabit internet connection let her download a fifty-gigabyte game update in under seven minutes.
Reema 的吉位元網路連線讓她在不到七分鐘內就下載完一個 50 GB 的遊戲更新檔。
- Gb
standard abbreviation; always lowercase 'b' for bits (uppercase 'B' means bytes)
用法筆記
Gigabit is commonly seen in compound forms such as 'gigabit per second' (abbreviated Gbps) and 'gigabit ethernet'. Do not confuse with 'gigabyte' (GB), which is eight times larger (1 GB = 8 Gb).