mebibyte en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈmɛbɪˌbaɪt/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From mebi- + byte.
Meanings
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Strictly, 2²⁰ (1024², or 1,048,576) bytes or 2¹⁰ (1024) kibibytes, as opposed to a megabyte.
At a minimum, a textual (command-line) system requires 256 mebibytes of RAM and a graphical (desktop) system requires 384-512 mebibytes of RAM.
2012, Mark G. Sobell, A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 29:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| mebibytes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
kibibyte (Previous) · gibibyte (Next)
Synonyms
Translations (10)
ka მებიბაიტი (1,048,576 bytes) · de Mebibyte (1,048,576 bytes) · fi mebitavu (1,048,576 bytes) · ja メビバイト (1,048,576 bytes) · ru мебиба́йт (1,048,576 bytes) · fr mébioctet (1,048,576 bytes) · cmn MiB (1,048,576 bytes) · cmn 兆比字節 /兆比字节 (1,048,576 bytes) · ko 메비바이트 (1,048,576 bytes) · eo mebibitoko (1,048,576 bytes)