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- noun   A unit of time equal to 1,000,000,000seconds and with symbol Gs.
Etymologies
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giga- + second
			
		
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								For a moment, Amber looks ancient, far older than her subjective gigasecond of age. 
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								Welcome to decade the eighth, singularity plus one gigasecond (or maybe more -- nobody's quite sure when, or indeed _if, _ a singularity has been created). 
reesetee commented on the word gigasecond
The equivalent of 32 years--sounds so much quicker this way. :-)
February 20, 2007 
			
		
	
samwi commented on the word gigasecond
A gigasecond calculator:
http://www.tasktrimmer.com/gigasecond
March 21, 2011