Mebibyte

//ˈmɛbɪˌbaɪt// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Strictly, 2²⁰ (1024², or 1,048,576) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) kibibytes, as opposed to a megabyte.

    "At a minimum, a textual (command-line) system requires 256 mebibytes of RAM and a graphical (desktop) system requires 384-512 mebibytes of RAM."

  2. 2
    a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes wordnet

Etymology

From mebi- + byte.

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