megabyte
/ˈmɛɡəˌbaɪt/
megabyte noun: one million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bytes or 1,000 kilobytes.
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
- This 70-megabyte [69,889,536 bytes] data module contains fixed heads in addition to the normal access heads.1973, Reference Manual for IBM 3340/3344 Disk Storage, IBM, page 3
- 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
- Defaults to 2 megabytes (2,097,152 bytes).2004, Kerry Cox, Christopher Gerg, Managing Security with Snort and IDS Tools, page 92
megabyte meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Arabic and Thai
megabyte in Tamil
- மெகாபைட்
megabyte in Bengali
- about a million bytes
- মেগাবাইট megabaiṭ
megabyte in Arabic
- about a million bytes
- مِيغَابَايْت miḡabayt
megabyte in Thai
- about a million bytes
- เมกะไบต์
Examples of megabyte in a sentence
- But that price is only if a subscriber buys the most megabytes per month now being offered: 200MB of data for $199 a month.2002 April 30, Matt Hamblen, “Next generation wireless: Will users pay?”, in CNN:
- The overage charge on this plan has been reduced to 10 cents per megabyte over the limit.2009 May 14, Marguerite Reardon, “Verizon Netbook to hit stores this weekend”, in CNN:
- By default, each log file [...] is exactly 5 megabytes (5,242,880 bytes) in size.2006, Eriq Oliver Neale, Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed, page 290:
Synonyms of megabyte
- MB
- ㎆
Forms of megabyte
| plural | megabytes |
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Origin of megabyte
From mega- + byte.
Words formed from megabyte
Questions about megabyte
- What does megabyte mean?
- Megabyte means one million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bytes or 1,000 kilobytes.
- What is megabyte in Tamil?
- Megabyte in Tamil is மெகாபைட். See Megabyte meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use megabyte in a sentence?
- But that price is only if a subscriber buys the most megabytes per month now being offered: 200MB of data for $199 a month.
- What part of speech is megabyte?
- Megabyte is a noun.
- How do you pronounce megabyte?
- Megabyte is pronounced /ˈmɛɡəˌbaɪt/.
- What is the plural of megabyte?
- The plural of megabyte is megabytes.
Words near megabyte in the dictionary
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