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1. A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place
    
2. A castrated tomcat

1. Fasten with a gib

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
   - 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