giga- [GIG uh or JIG uh] , gig- (Greek: "giant"; a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements).Used in the extended sense of billion [U.S.] or thousand million fold [U.K.] in the metric [decimal] system: 109 [1 000 000 000]. The metric symbol is G.gigabit:
gigabyte:
gigacycle:
gigaelectrovolt:
gigaflop:
gigaflop:
A billion calculations per second.,
gigahertz:
gigajoules:
gigameters (British: gigametres):
gigapascal:
gigavolt:
gigawatt:
gigohm:
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