megabyte

noun
/ˈmɛɡəˌbaɪt/

Etymology

From mega- + byte.

Definitions

  1. 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.
  2. 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

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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