Mbps

See also: MBps

English

Alternative forms

• Mb/s

Noun

Mbps (plural Mbps)

1. (computing) megabit per second, a measure of data transfer rate
2. (genetics) million base pairs
   • 2014, Alison Snape, Despo Papachristodoulou, William H. Elliott, Daphne C. Elliott, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 5th ed., Oxford University Press (→ISBN), page 343:

     The main chromosome in E coli^[sic] is 4.6 million base pairs (4.6 Mbps) in length, ...

   • 1999, Proceedings of the ... Annual International Conference on Computational Molecular Biology: RECOMB

     Firstly, the set of mouse EST sequences having no homology to known mouse mRNAs was used (198323 sequences, 75.2 Million base pairs (Mbps)).

   • 1993, Journal of Fermentation and Bioengineering

     The total size of the C. ellipsoidea chromosomes is supposed to be about 40 mega base pairs (Mbps) (7).

Coordinate terms

• (computing): bps, kbps, Gbps, Tbps, Pbps, Ebps

Related terms

• MBps

See also

• megabaud

Anagrams

• PBMs, PMBs