meg
/mɛɡ/
meg is the clipping of megabyte.
meg is the clipping of megahertz.
meg is the clipping of megajoule.
Meaning of megabyte
Noun
megabyte (plural megabytes)
- One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bytes or 1,000 kilobytes.
- 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.1964, System/360 System Summary, IBM, page 27
- A mebibyte.
- One megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. One megahertz, however is a million Hertz.2003, Michael Meyers, Managing and Troubleshooting PCs, page 933
Meaning of megahertz
Noun
megahertz (plural megahertz or megahertzes)
- A unit equal to one million cycles per second.
Noun (1)
meg (plural megs or meg)
- A dollar.
- He could pick out cloth that was thirty meg a yard and get a suit and overcoat for fifteen bucks.1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post
Noun (2)
meg (plural megs)
- A nutmeg.
Verb
meg (third-person singular simple present megs, present participle megging, simple past and past participle megged)
- To nutmeg an opponent.
Noun (3)
meg (plural megs)
- A megalodon.
Noun (4) capitalized: MEG
MEG
- Abbreviation of Meghalaya.
Noun (5) capitalized: MEG
MEG (countable and uncountable, plural MEGs)
- Abbreviation of magnetoencephalogram.
- Abbreviation of magnetoencephalograph.
- Abbreviation of magnetoencephalography.
- Abbreviation of monoethylene glycol.
Proper noun (1) capitalized: Meg
Meg (plural Megs)
- A diminutive of the female given names Margaret and Megan.
- Old Meg was brave as Margaret Queen,
And tall as Amazon:
An old red blanket cloak she wore,
A chip-hat had she on.1818, John Keats, Meg Merrilies - My mother thought Meg a sweet child, that's what she called her, a sweet child, although she was critical of her name.
'What kind of name is that,' she said.
'It's short for Margaret,' I said. 'But everyone calls her Meg.'
'Well, that's no name for a girl, that's a scullery maid's name. I fault the...1985, E. L. Doctorow, World's Fair, Fawcett Crest, published 1986, →ISBN, page 208
- Old Meg was brave as Margaret Queen,
Noun (6) capitalized: Meg
Meg (plural Megs)
- Megalodon.
- The Bone Valley Region of Florida has multiple Miocene nursery sites in which neonate and young Meg teeth are abundant, as well as food sources. Young Megs probably consumed a lot of large fish but because fish vertebrae don't hold up well in the fossil record, it's difficult to get an accurate...2002, Mark Renz, Megalodon: Hunting the Hunter, page 33
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Meg
Meg
- Abbreviation of Meghalaya.
Forms of meg
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | megs |
| plural | meg |
| plural | MEGs |
| plural | Megs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | megs |
| present participle | megging |
| past participle | megged |
| past | megged |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Megs |
| alternative form | Megs |
Origin of meg
Clipping of words starting with mega-.
Unknown.
Clipping of nutmeg.
Phrases with meg
Words that rhyme with meg
Questions about meg
Words near meg in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: meg (page history and authors); MEG (page history and authors); Meg (page history and authors); megabyte (page history and authors); megahertz (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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