GB

From English Great Britain, taken from the full name of the country, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The reasoning provided by the International Organization for Standardization is, “Since name components like Republic, Kingdom, United, Federal or Democratic are used very often in country names we usually do not derive the country code elements from them in order to avoid ambiguity. The name components United and Kingdom not being appro[p]riate for ISO 3166-1, the code GB for the United Kingdom was created from Great Britain.”^[1]

GB

1. (international standards) ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code for the United Kingdom.

   Synonyms: GBR (alpha-3), UK (exceptionally reserved)

The code includes the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia.

• BG

GB

1. (computing, formal) Abbreviation of gigabyte.
   • 1989, IBM 3390 Direct Access Storage Reference Summary, IBM, page 7:

     MB equals 10⁶ bytes and GB equals 10⁹ bytes

   • 2024 September 4, Anurag Singh, “Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive””, in Dexerto‎^[2]:

     For those who aren’t aware, a Nitro Basic subscription costs $3 a month. Nitro users, who pay $10 a month, get to stream videos in 4K and use emojis in channels. In comparison, messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram offer a 2 GB file limit.

2. (computing, informal) Abbreviation of gibibyte.

   Synonym: GiB.

GB (plural GBs)

1. (anatomy) Initialism of gallbladder.
2. (informal, pharmacology) Initialism of goofball (“barbiturate”).
   • 1965 February 26, James Mills, “The World of Needle Park”, in Time, volume 58, number 8, page 82:

     Goofballs usually produce a quiet drowsiness, but also at times a tense aggressiveness that can be frighteningly unpredictable. Irene's behavior when she is high on GBs, which is most of the time, has created such havoc in the neighborhood restaurants that they no longer let her in.

3. (crystallography) Initialism of grain boundary.

GB

1. Initialism of Great Britain.
2. Initialism of Gilgit-Baltistan.
3. Abbreviation of Green Bay in Wisconsin, USA.
4. Initialism of Game Boy.
5. (chemistry, military) Initialism of German agent B (US designation for the nerve gas sarin).
6. Initialism of Guantanamo Bay.
7. (linguistics) Initialism of Government and Binding.

• Great Britain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Green Bay, Wisconsin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

GB

1. (Internet slang) Initialism of God bless.

• Bg., bg, BG

GB f

1. initialism of Geroa Bai

GB

1. (computing) abbreviation of gigabyte
   • 2021 July 21, Juan Garzon, “Los mejores celulares Android de 2021”, in CNN en Español‎^[3]:

     Este celular tiene una hermosa pantalla, un cuerpo que es resistente al agua (IP68), su procesador Snapdragon 888 (o Exynos 2100), con 12 GB o 16 GB de RAM, ofrece una experiencia muy fluida y es el primer celular de la serie Galaxy S que es compatible con un S Pen, el stylus de Samsung.

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GB

1. (computing) abbreviation of gigabaiti (“gigabyte”)

GB

1. alternative letter-case form of Gb (“The eighth letter of the Yoruba alphabet”)

• (Latin-script letters) lẹ́tà; A a (Á á, À à, Ā ā), B b, D d, E e (É é, È è, Ē ē), Ẹ ẹ (Ẹ́ ẹ́, Ẹ̀ ẹ̀, Ẹ̄ ẹ̄), F f, G g, Gb gb, H h, I i (Í í, Ì ì, Ī ī), J j, K k, L l, M m (Ḿ ḿ, M̀ m̀, M̄ m̄), N n (Ń ń, Ǹ ǹ, N̄ n̄), O o (Ó ó, Ò ò, Ō ō), Ọ ọ (Ọ́ ọ́, Ọ̀ ọ̀, Ọ̄ ọ̄), P p, R r, S s, Ṣ ṣ, T t, U u (Ú ú, Ù ù, Ū ū), W w, Y y
• (Benin)
• (Latin-script letters) lɛ́tà; A a, B b, D d, E e, Ɛ ɛ, F f, G g, Gb gb, H h, I i, J j, K k, Kp kp, L l, M m, N n, O o, Ɔ ɔ, P p, R r, S s, Sh sh, T t, U u, W w, Y y