megabyte

English

Wikipedia

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.

Translations

about a million bytes

• Arabic: ميغابايت (ar) (mighabayt) m
• Bengali: মেগাবাইট (bn)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (formal) 兆字節 (cmn), 兆字节 (cmn) (zhàozìjié), (common abbreviation, pronounced like English) MG (cmn)

• Esperanto: megabitoko (eo), megabajto (eo)
• Finnish: megatavu (fi)
• French: mégaoctet (fr)

• German: Megabyte (de) n
• Icelandic: megabæti (is)
• Japanese: メガバイト (ja) (megabaito)
• Korean: 메가바이트 (ko) (megabaiteu)
• Navajo: tááłtsohʼííłké
• Polish: megabajt (pl) m
• Portuguese: megabyte (pt) m
• Russian: мегабайт (ru) (megabájt) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ме̏габајт (sh) m

  Roman: mȅgabajt (sh) m

• Yiddish: מעגאבייט (yi)

Related terms

• Previous: kilobyte
• Next: gigabyte
• MB
• Mb
• mebibyte
• megabit

References

• The IEC explanation of its definitions

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Italian

Etymology

mega- +‎ byte

Noun

megabyte m (invariable)

1. (computing) megabyte