megabyte

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Noun 1.1.1 Translations 1.1.2 Related terms 1.2 References 2 Italian 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Noun

[edit] English

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[edit] Noun

megabyte (plural megabytes)

1. One million bytes. SI Symbol: MB
2. (computing) 1,048,576 bytes; a mebibyte. Frequently abbreviated MB.
   • 2003, Michael Meyers, Managing and Troubleshooting PCs, page 933

     One megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. One megahertz, however is a million Hertz.

   • 2004, Kerry Cox & Christopher Gerg, Managing Security with Snort and IDS Tools, page 92

     Defaults to 2 megabytes (2,097,152 bytes).

   • 2006, Eriq Oliver Neale, Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed, page 290

     By default, each log file [...] is exactly 5 megabytes (5,242,880 bytes) in size.

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[edit] References

• The IEC explanation of its definitions

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Etymology

mega- +‎ byte

[edit] Noun

megabyte m. inv.

1. (computing) megabyte