How to Use megabyte in a Sentence
megabyte
noun- The CD has a storage capacity of 800 megabytes.
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To be sure, the phone’s 4G speed was still mighty fast, up to 117 megabytes.
—Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2019
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Customers get the first 100 megabytes of shared data free each month.
—Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2017
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In 1995 Niklaus Wirth lamented that software had grown to megabytes in size.
—IEEE Spectrum, 6 Feb. 2024
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Podcasts don’t take as much space as video, but those megabytes do add up.
—Kim Komando, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2017
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And the optical nerve is about 20 megabytes per second.
—TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
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Photos should be at least 1 megabyte; 5MB is ideal, but more than 10MB is too large.
—Catharine Hamm, latimes.com, 16 May 2018
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Not all that long ago, a complex game or software program fit on a 1.4 megabyte floppy disk.
—Klint Finley, Wired, 4 Apr. 2020
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Each has a central region of 48 megabytes of cache memory.
—IEEE Spectrum, 9 Apr. 2024
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The drive offers read speeds up to 500 megabytes per second, which Team Group says is four times faster than a traditional hard drive.
—Ian Paul, PCWorld, 17 May 2018
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In the 1980s, public keys based on lattices were too long, requiring megabytes of data to transmit.
—Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2015
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The Commission's price caps started at €0.90 per megabyte, and graded downwards each year.
—David Meyer, Fortune, 24 June 2021
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Then the two megabyte blocksize increase would go into effect three months after that.
—Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 9 Nov. 2017
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For example, a device with a write speed of 64 MBps can record 64 megabytes of data every second.
—Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
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These signatures aren't counted against that one-megabyte block-size limit, so this is a de facto block-size increase.
—Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Feb. 2018
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Manufacturers usually talk about the read and write speeds of hard drives and describe them in megabytes per second (MBps).
—Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
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Android Go is being designed for O phones with one gigabyte or less of memory, down to 512 megabytes.
—Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 19 May 2017
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When thousands of ravenous customers all crash a website, even the smallest fraction of megabyte speed can make the difference.
—Jake Woolf, GQ, 10 Apr. 2018
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When thousands of ravenous customers all crash a website, even the smallest fraction of megabyte speed can make the difference.
—Jake Woolf, GQ, 20 June 2017
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Its file bundle is about half a megabyte, adding to the data transfer load and using a high proportion of the browser’s resources for processing.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Dec. 2023
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Now the Fish deploys its sonar arrays and begins absorbing and transmitting megabytes of the most rarefied knowledge.
—Bucky McMahon, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2015
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Emirates passengers on most flights get up to 20 megabytes within two hours and can use the connection to send messages through social networks.
—Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2017
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Especially in rural areas, about 10 to 12 megabytes will be an entire city.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Oct. 2017
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This set of features is mostly meant for the developing world, where data is more expensive, limited, and pre-paid by the megabyte.
—Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2018
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Data usage for streaming music depends on the audio fidelity and service, but plan to use at least 51 megabytes an hour.
—J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018
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Ushr makes the Super Cruise system’s maps—terabytes of map data boiled down to a few hundred megabytes of relevant route information.
—Christopher Mims, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
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The government thinks the cost of internet per megabyte will fall by half almost immediately.
—The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
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Many gallons of ink (and megabytes of electronic text) have been devoted to explaining the surprise victory of Donald Trump.
—James Shanahan, Scientific American, 10 June 2017
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This probability assessment is largely based on the transfer speeds of megabytes of DNC data.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 11 Dec. 2017
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An average photo takes up five megabytes, according to Samsung.
—Brian X. Chen, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
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