megabyte
English
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Noun
megabyte (plural megabytes)
- One million (106) bytes.
- 1964, IBM, System/360 System Summary, page 27
- The IBM 2301 Drum Storage (Figure 20) provides random access storage of approximately 4 million bytes at a data rate of 1.2 megabytes per second.
- 1973, IBM, Reference Manual for IBM 3340/3344 Disk Storage, page 3
- This 70-megabyte [69,889,536 bytes] data module contains fixed heads in addition to the normal access heads.
- 1964, IBM, System/360 System Summary, page 27
- (computing) 1,048,576 bytes; a mebibyte.
- 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.
- 2003, Michael Meyers, Managing and Troubleshooting PCs, page 933
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about a million bytes
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Italian
Etymology
Noun
megabyte m (uncountable)
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English megabyte.
Pronunciation
Noun
megabyte m (plural megabytes)
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- Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte
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Spanish
Noun
megabyte m (plural megabytes)
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