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mebibit

noun

Etymology

From mebi- + bit.

  1. derived from *bʰeyd-✻ — “to split”
  2. inherited from *bitô✻
  3. inherited from bita — “bit; fragment; morsel”
  4. inherited from bitte
  5. formed as mebibit — “mebi- + bit”

Definitions

  1. Strictly, 2²⁰ (1024², or 1,048,576) bits or 2¹⁰ (1024) kibibits, as opposed to a megabit.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mebibit. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA