Megabyte

//ˈmɛɡəˌbaɪt// noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes wordnet
  3. 3
    A mebibyte. informal

    "One megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. One megahertz, however is a million Hertz."

  4. 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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