megabyte
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈmɛɡəˌbaɪt/
Noun

megabyte (plural megabytes)

  1. One million (106) bytes.
  2. (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.
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