Megabyte

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Noun

Singular Megabyte

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1. One million bytes. SI Symbol: MB
2. (computing) 1,048,576 bytes; a mebibyte. Frequently abbreviated MB.
   • 2003, Michael Meyers, Managing and Troubleshooting PCs, page 933

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

   • 2004, Kerry Cox & Christopher Gerg, Managing Security with Snort and IDS Tools, page 92

     Defaults to 2 megabytes (2,097,152 bytes).

   • 2006, Eriq Oliver Neale, Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed, page 290

     By default, each log file [...] is exactly 5 megabytes (5,242,880 bytes) in size.

Translations

about a million bytes

Chinese: 兆字节 (zhào zì jié) Esperanto: megabitoko eo(eo) Finnish: megatavu fi(fi)

French: mégaoctet fr(fr) Polish: megabajt m. Russian: мегабайт ru(ru) m.

Related terms

• Previous: kilobyte
• Next: gigabyte
• MB
• Mb
• megabit

References

• The IEC explanation of its definitions

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Italian

Etymology

mega- +‎ byte

Noun

megabyte m. inv.

1. (computing) megabyte

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