Definition of Megabyte
1. Noun. A unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes.
Generic synonyms: Computer Memory Unit
Terms within: K, Kb, Kilobyte
Group relationships: G, Gb, Gigabyte
2. Noun. A unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes.
Generic synonyms: Computer Memory Unit
Terms within: K, Kb, Kib, Kibibyte, Kilobyte
Group relationships: G, Gb, Gib, Gibibyte, Gigabyte
Definition of Megabyte
1. 1,048,576 bytes [n -S]
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Literary usage of Megabyte
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1. Managing the World Economy: The Consequences of Corporate Alliances by Peter F. Cowhey, Jonathan David Aronson (1993)
"... not manufacturing, 256 megabyte chip in IBM labs in US 1990 Advanced DRAM
cooperation; joint S700 million plant in France; cancel pact for 64 megabyte ..."
2. A History of the Personal Computer: The People and the Technology by Roy A. Allan (2001)
"The Model 30- 021 had one 720K byte floppy disk drive, a 20 megabyte hard disk
... The Model 50 had an Intel 80286 microprocessor, one megabyte of memory, ..."
3. Women-Owned and Home-Based Businesses: Hearing Before the Committee on Small edited by Christopher S. Bond (1999)
"Steve Smith, a computer programmer, is laid off when megabyte Inc. downsizes.
megabyte agrees to pay Steve a flat amount to complete a ..."
4. Defend Your Data!: Guide to Data Recovery by David J. Stang (1991)
"Therefore, a 40 megabyte drive may be divided into two virtual drives using the
... For example: If your drive has a 40 megabyte formatted capacity you may ..."
5. Overview of the Third Text Retrieval Conference (Trec-3) edited by D. K. Harmon (1996)
"The entire process (tagging, parsing, phrase and name extraction) took about 45
minutes per megabyte, or just over 2 months on a Sun's SparcStations 10 (at ..."
6. U. S. Industrial Outlook, 1994: Business Forecasts for 350 IndustriesBusiness & Economics (1994)
"DISI^REND has predicted that unit shipments of 200-300 megabyte drives will
eclipse those of 100-200 megabyte drives by the end of 1993. ..."
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