1. A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place
   "He inserted a gib to secure the component"
    
2. A castrated tomcat
   "The gib was much calmer than the unaltered male cats in the neighbourhood"

1. Fasten with a gib
   "They gibbed the beam to secure it in place"

1. Location of a colony of the United Kingdom on a limestone promontory at the southern tip of Spain; strategically important because it can control the entrance of ships into the Mediterranean; one of the Pillars of Hercules
   - Gibraltar, Rock of Gibraltar, Calpe

1. A unit of information equal to 1024 mebibytes or 2^30 (1,073,741,824) bytes
   "The hard drive had a capacity of 500 GiBs";
   - gigabyte, gibibyte, G, GB, gig [informal]

Derived forms: gibbing, gibs, gibbed

Type of: colony, computer memory unit, foreland, head, headland, promontory, settlement, tom, tomcat

Part of: Europe, Pillars of Hercules, TB, tebibyte, terabyte, TiB

Encyclopedia: Gib, Adam