megabyte
noun/ˈmɛɡəˌbaɪt/
Etymology
From mega- + byte.
Definitions
One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bytes or 1,000 kilobytes.
- The IBM 2301 Drum Storage (Figure 20) provides random access storage of approximately 4 million bytes at a data rate of 1.2 megabytes per second.
- This 70-megabyte [69,889,536 bytes] data module contains fixed heads in addition to the normal access heads.
A mebibyte.
- One megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. One megahertz, however is a million Hertz.
- Defaults to 2 megabytes (2,097,152 bytes).
- By default, each log file [...] is exactly 5 megabytes (5,242,880 bytes) in size.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for megabyte. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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