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megabits

megabits is the plural of megabit.

Meaning of megabit

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

Questions about megabits

What is megabits the plural of?
Megabits is the plural of megabit.

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