MEGABYTE

megabyte, mebibyte, MB, MiB

(noun) a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes

megabyte, MB

(noun) a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

megabyte (plural megabytes)

One million (106) bytes.

(computing) 1,048,576 bytes; a mebibyte.

Synonyms

• MB, ㎆

Source: Wiktionary



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