megabyte

noun

mega·​byte ˈme-gə-ˌbīt How to pronounce megabyte (audio)
: 1024 kilobytes or 1,048,576 bytes
also : one million bytes

Examples of megabyte in a Sentence

The CD has a storage capacity of 800 megabytes.
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Google added a faster and more energy efficient processor and upped the RAM to 16 megabytes. Larry Magid, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024 That means Starlink can deliver download bandwidth in the hundreds of megabytes and, crucially, latency right down into the tens of milliseconds, rather than the half-second or more that geostationary satellites suffer from. Barry Collins, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024 Servers and workstations need a lot of computing power, making having as many cores as possible necessary—far more critical than a few extra megabytes of L3 cache. Michael Justin Allen Sexton, PCMAG, 24 July 2024 And with read speeds up to 800 megabytes per second, you won’t be stuck waiting for long periods when transferring files. Rebecca Martinson, Rolling Stone, 11 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for megabyte 

Word History

Etymology

from the fact that 1,048,576 (220) is the power of 2 closest to one million

First Known Use

1965, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of megabyte was in 1965

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“Megabyte.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/megabyte. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.

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megabyte

noun
mega·​byte ˈmeg-ə-ˌbīt How to pronounce megabyte (audio)
: 1,048,576 bytes
also : one million bytes

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