Dictionary

megabit en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈmɛɡəbɪt/

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s Proto-Hellenic *mégas Ancient Greek μέγᾰς (mégăs)der. English mega- English bit English megabit From mega- + bit.

Meanings

1. One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bits or 1,000 kilobits. Equals 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes).
   • When reading clock pulses only, the signal frequency is 625 kHz. The bit rate, however, is twice the signal frequency, or 1.25 megabits/sec. 1965, Field Engineering Theory of Operation 2311 Disk Storage Drive, IBM, pages 3–27:
2. a mebibit.
3. (informal) one megabit per second

Forms

Coordinates

kilobit (Previous) · gigabit (Next)

Deriveds

submegabit · multimegabit

Relateds

mebibyte · megabyte

Synonyms

Mbps · Mbit

Translations (13)

ja メガビット (1,000,000 bits) · ru мегаби́т (1,000,000 bits) · cs megabit (1,000,000 bits) · ro megabit (1,000,000 bits) · fr mégabit (1,000,000 bits) · th เมกะบิต (1,000,000 bits) · fi megabitti (1,000,000 bits) · hu megabit (1,000,000 bits) · pt megabit (1,000,000 bits) · it megabit (1,000,000 bits) · ko 메가비트 (1,000,000 bits) · es megabit (1,000,000 bits) · eo megabito (1,000,000 bits)