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mibibyte

mibibyte 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

Origin of mibibyte

By false analogy with gibi-, kibi-.

Questions about mibibyte

What is mibibyte the misspelling of?
Mibibyte is the misspelling of mebibyte.

Words near mibibyte in the dictionary

  1. MiB/s
  2. MIBC
  3. mibefradil
  4. MIBG
  5. MIBI
  6. mibibyte
  7. Mibit
  8. MIBK
  9. mibolerone
  10. MiBps
  11. mibs

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