megabyte
USMEG-uh-byt/ˈmɛɡəˌbaɪt/
Pluralmegabytes
- 1A unit of computer data equal to one million bytes, or one thousand kilobytes.
Like a small box that can hold about one million little pieces of computer information.
This photo takes up about one megabyte of space on your phone.
The whole report was only two megabytes when she emailed it.
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- 2A unit of computer data equal to 1,048,576 bytes: a little more than one million.
Like a cup that quietly holds a little more than the label says.
This old program treats one megabyte as 1,048,576 bytes.
The computer measured the disk in megabytes of 1,048,576 bytes each.
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Origin
From "mega-" plus "byte".