megabyte

meg·a·byte

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- UK Pronunciation
- UK IPA
- [meg-uh-bahyt]
- /ˈmɛg əˌbaɪt/
- /ˈmeɡ.ə.baɪt/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [meg-uh-bahyt]
- /ˈmɛg əˌbaɪt/

Definitions of megabyte word

noun megabyte 2 20 (1,048,576) bytes. 1
noun megabyte (loosely) one million bytes. Abbreviation: MB. 1
noun megabyte One million bytes. SI Symbol: MB. 1
noun megabyte computing: one million bytes 1
noun Technical meaning of megabyte (unit, data) (MB, colloquially "meg") A Unit of data equal to one million bytes but see binary prefix for other definitions. A megabyte is 1000^2 bytes or 1000 kilobytes. The text of a six hundred page paperback book stored as ASCII characters contains about one megabyte of data. The complete King James bible is 5.2 megabytes. 1000 megabytes are one gigabyte. See prefix. 1
countable noun megabyte In computing, a megabyte is one million bytes of data. 0

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Origin of megabyte

First appearance:

before 1965

One of the 2% newest English words

First recorded in 1965-70; mega- + byte

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Parts of speech for Megabyte

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megabyte popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 55% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

megabyte usage trend in Literature

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