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Megabyte
//ˈmɛɡəˌbaɪt// noun, slang
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bytes or 1,000 kilobytes. formal
"The IBM 2301 Drum Storage (Figure 20) provides random access storage of approximately 4 million bytes at a data rate of 1.2 megabytes per second."
- 2 a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes wordnet
- 3 A mebibyte. informal
"One megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. One megahertz, however is a million Hertz."
- 4 a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes wordnet
Etymology
From mega- + byte.
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