meg

Noun
US[meg]/mɛɡ/1 syllable
Synonyms: million1000000one thousand thousand

Open English WordNet

Noun (1)

  1. the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zerosSynonyms: million1000000one thousand thousandType of large integer
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Meg- \Meg-\ (m[e^]g-), Mega \Meg"a\ (m[e^]g"[.a]-), Megalo- \Meg"a*lo-\ (m[e^]g"[.a]*l[-o]-). [Gr. me`gas, gen. mega`loy, great.] Combining forms signifying: (a) Great, extended, powerful; as, megascope, megacosm. (b) (Metric System, Elec., Mech., etc.) A million times, a million of; as, megabyte, a million butes; megawatt, a million watts; megameter, a million meters; megafarad, a million farads; megohm, a million ohms. [1913 Webster +PJC] Megacephalic

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

megabyte meg

<unit, data> (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)

The Jargon File

meg /meg/, n.

See quantifiers.

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