[syn: megabyte, mebibyte, M, MB, MiB]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
megabyte
n 1: a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6
(1,000,000) bytes [syn: megabyte, M, MB]
2: a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20
(1,048,576) bytes [syn: megabyte, mebibyte, M, MB,
MiB]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
megabyte
meg
(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.
(2013-11-04)