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megibyte

megibyte is the misspelling 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 megibyte

What is megibyte the misspelling of?
Megibyte is the misspelling of mebibyte.

Words near megibyte in the dictionary

  1. Meghnada
  2. Meghri
  3. Meghwar Bhil
  4. Megia
  5. Megias
  6. megibyte
  7. Megiddo
  8. Megill
  9. megilla
  10. megillah
  11. megillahs

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