megabyte en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈmɛɡəˌbaɪt/
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s Proto-Hellenic *mégas Ancient Greek μέγᾰς (mégăs)der. English mega- Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- Proto-Indo-European *-t Proto-Indo-European *bʰéydt Proto-Germanic *bītaną Proto-West Germanic *bītan Old English bītan Middle English biten English bite English byte English megabyte From mega- + byte.
Meanings
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(formal) One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bytes or 1,000 kilobytes.
The overage charge on this plan has been reduced to 10 cents per megabyte over the limit. Previously, the company charged 25 cents per megabyte for overages.
2009 May 14, Marguerite Reardon, “Verizon Netbook to hit stores this weekend”, in CNN: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.
1964, System/360 System Summary, IBM, page 27:This 70-megabyte [69,889,536 bytes] data module contains fixed heads in addition to the normal access heads.
1973, Reference Manual for IBM 3340/3344 Disk Storage, IBM, page 3:AT&T Wireless Services Inc. in Redmond, Washington, is currently offering $1 per megabyte as its cheapest rate for General Packet Radio Service wireless service, which can provide 20K to 40K bit/sec. throughput. But that price is only if a subscriber buys the most megabytes per month now being offered: 200MB of data for $199 a month.
2002 April 30, Matt Hamblen, “Next generation wireless: Will users pay?”, in CNN:
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(informal) A mebibyte.
One megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. One megahertz, however is a million Hertz.
2003, Michael Meyers, Managing and Troubleshooting PCs, page 933:By default, each log file [...] is exactly 5 megabytes (5,242,880 bytes) in size.
2006, Eriq Oliver Neale, Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed, page 290:Defaults to 2 megabytes (2,097,152 bytes).
2004, Kerry Cox, Christopher Gerg, Managing Security with Snort and IDS Tools, page 92:
Forms
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Coordinates
kilobyte (Previous) · gigabyte (Next)
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Translations (37)
nv tááłtsohʼííłké (about a million bytes) · bo ཡིག་ཚིགས་ས་ཡ (about a million bytes) · ko 메가바이트 (about a million bytes) · el μεγκαμπάιτ (about a million bytes) · ru мегаба́йт (about a million bytes) · ja メガバイト (about a million bytes) · he מגה־בית (about a million bytes) · sw megabaiti (about a million bytes) · cs megabyte (about a million bytes) · cs megabajt (about a million bytes) · pl megabajt (about a million bytes) · eo megabitoko (about a million bytes) · ug مېگابايت (about a million bytes) · yi מעגאַבײַט (about a million bytes) · fi megatavu (about a million bytes) · ar مِيغَابَايْت (about a million bytes) · pt megabyte (about a million bytes) · ka მეგაბაიტი (about a million bytes) · is megabæti (about a million bytes) · ro megaoctet (about a million bytes) · fr mégaoctet (about a million bytes) · es megabyte (about a million bytes) · th เมกะไบต์ (about a million bytes) · ro megabyte (about a million bytes) · hu megabyte (about a million bytes) · cmn 兆字節 /兆字节 (about a million bytes) · uk мегаба́йт (about a million bytes) · tr megabayt (about a million bytes) · cmn MG (about a million bytes) · sh ме̏габајт (about a million bytes) · fr mégabyte (about a million bytes) · de Megabyte (about a million bytes) · el μεγαδυφιοσυλλαβή (about a million bytes) · eo megabajto (about a million bytes) · sh mȅgabajt (about a million bytes) · bn মেগাবাইট (about a million bytes) · mk мегабајт (about a million bytes)