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US
/ˈmɛɡəˌbaɪt/
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[ UK /mˈɛɡəbˌaɪt/ ]
[ UK /mˈɛɡəbˌaɪt/ ]
NOUN
- a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes
- a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes
How To Use megabyte In A Sentence
- When you bought that new computer a couple of years ago, you probably thought its 500-megabyte hard disk would last for ever.
- Uses can also use the catalogue program to select their put together their own disks for £8.95 per compressed megabyte.
- You can use standard wireless technology in hand-helds that have a huge capacity - they can have up to 250 megabytes now.
- Within a building, a local area network can transfer data at broadband speeds-10 megabytes per second or more.
- Roughly eight million bits make a megabyte.
- There are actually three definitions of a Megabyte, one decimal, one binary, and one that refers specifically to 1.44MB floppoes.
- Hard disk capacity is measured in gigabytes - a gigabyte being roughly 1,000 megabytes.
- I now know there are eight bits in a byte, and 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte.
- Enter the terabyte - 1,000 gigabytes or 1 million megabytes. Times, Sunday Times
- A print server can rip, store and queue hundreds of megabytes of print jobs without slowing down the network.