German

Noun

Megabyte n

1. megabyte (about a million bytes)

English

Noun

megabyte ‎(plural megabytes)

1. One million (10⁶) bytes.
   • 1964, IBM, System/360 System Summary, page 27

     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.

   • 1973, IBM, Reference Manual for IBM 3340/3344 Disk Storage, page 3

     This 70-megabyte [69,889,536 bytes] data module contains fixed heads in addition to the normal access heads.

2. (computing) 1,048,576 bytes; a mebibyte.
   • 2003, Michael Meyers, Managing and Troubleshooting PCs, page 933

     One megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. One megahertz, however is a million Hertz.

   • 2004, Kerry Cox & Christopher Gerg, Managing Security with Snort and IDS Tools, page 92

     Defaults to 2 megabytes (2,097,152 bytes).

   • 2006, Eriq Oliver Neale, Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed, page 290

     By default, each log file [...] is exactly 5 megabytes (5,242,880 bytes) in size.

Synonyms

• MB, ㎆

Translations

Related terms

• Previous: kilobyte
• Next: gigabyte
• Mb
• mebibyte
• megabit

References

• The IEC explanation of its definitions

Italian

Etymology

mega- +‎ byte

Noun

megabyte m ‎(invariable)

1. (computing) megabyte

Portuguese

Noun

megabyte m (plural megabytes)

1. megabyte (unit of a million bytes)

Spanish

Noun

megabyte m ‎(plural megabytes)

1. megabyte