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megabit

/ˈmɛɡəbɪt/

megabit noun: one million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bits or 1,000 kilobits. Equals 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes).

Noun

megabit (plural megabits)

  1. One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bits or 1,000 kilobits. Equals 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes).
    • When reading clock pulses only, the signal frequency is 625 kHz. The bit rate, however, is twice the signal frequency, or 1.25 megabits/sec.1965, Field Engineering Theory of Operation 2311 Disk Storage Drive, IBM, pages 3–27
  2. a mebibit.
  3. (informal) one megabit per second
    Synonyms:
    Mbps

megabit meaning in Tamil and Thai

megabit in Tamil

மீமிகு

megabit in Thai

1,000,000 bits
เมกะบิต

Synonyms of megabit

Forms of megabit

pluralmegabits

Origin of megabit

From mega- + bit.

Words formed from megabit

Questions about megabit

What does megabit mean?
Megabit means one million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bits or 1,000 kilobits. Equals 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes).
What is megabit in Tamil?
Megabit in Tamil is மீமிகு. See Megabit meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is megabit?
Megabit is a noun.
How do you pronounce megabit?
Megabit is pronounced /ˈmɛɡəbɪt/.
What is the plural of megabit?
The plural of megabit is megabits.

Words near megabit in the dictionary

  1. megabills
  2. megabinary
  3. megabiodiversity
  4. megabirnavirus
  5. megabirnaviruses
  6. megabit
  7. megabitch
  8. megabitches
  9. megabits
  10. megabladder
  11. megabladders

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Adapted from Wiktionary: megabit (page history and authors); megabit (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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