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mebibytes

mebibytes is the plural of mebibyte.

Meaning of mebibyte

Noun

mebibyte (plural mebibytes)

  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.2012, Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 29
    Synonyms:
    MiB

Questions about mebibytes

What is mebibytes the plural of?
Mebibytes is the plural of mebibyte.

Words near mebibytes in the dictionary

  1. mebhydroline
  2. mebi-
  3. mebibit
  4. mebibits
  5. mebibyte
  6. mebibytes
  7. Mebin
  8. mebiquine
  9. mebles
  10. mebolazine
  11. mebos

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