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Definition of Megabyte

1. Noun. A unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes.

2. Noun. A unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes.

Definition of Megabyte

1. Noun. One million bytes. SI Symbol: MB ¹

2. Noun. (context: computing) 1,048,576 bytes; a mebibyte. Frequently abbreviated MB. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Megabyte

1. 1,048,576 bytes [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Megabyte

megablockbusters megabook megabooks megabrand megabrands megabreccia megabreccias megabuck megabucks megabudget

megabudgets megabuilding megabuildings megabusiness megabusinesses megabyte (current term) megabytes megacardia megacaryoblast megacaryocyte

megacase megacases megacasino megacasinos megacatastrophic megacelebrities megacelebrity megacenter megacenters

Literary usage of Megabyte

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

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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