megabytes
SayMEG-uh-byts/ˈmɛɡəˌbaɪts/
- 1Plural of megabyte.
The email attachments together added up to nearly twelve megabytes.
Older flash drives held only a few megabytes of data.
Note
A regular plural with an unsettled quantity behind it: how many bytes twelve megabytes means depends on who is counting. In formal use each megabyte is exactly one million bytes, or 1,000 kilobytes. In looser, informal use it stands in for the mebibyte of 1,048,576 bytes. When the exact figure matters, say which you mean, or write mebibytes for the binary unit.
megabytes is a form of megabyte
megabyte, noun: A unit of digital information equal to one million bytes (1,000,000), or one thousand kilobytes. Full entry
- Forms
- megabytemegabytes plural
- Spelling
- megabyte → megabytes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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