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megabit

noun
/ˈmɛɡəbɪt/

Etymology

From mega- + 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 megabit — “mega- + bit”

Definitions

  1. One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bits or 1,000 kilobits. Equals 125,000 bytes (125…

    One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bits or 1,000 kilobits. Equals 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes).

    • When reading clock pulses only, the signal frequency is 625 kHz. The bit rate, however, is twice the signal frequency, or 1.25 megabits/sec.

  2. a mebibit.

  3. one megabit per second

The neighborhood

Derived

multimegabit, submegabit

Vish — recursive loop

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

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