Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A megabyte.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In physics, a prefix to a unit of measurement to denote the unit taken a million times: as, a megohm, a megavolt, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun slang Common abbreviation for many/any unit having the
SI prefix mega- , such asmegahertz
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
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Examples
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June 22nd, 2009 2: 00 pm ET meg is the best choice for CA with all of the budget crisis
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And if 25 – 30 meg is a massive client in the age of broadband and linking to greifing attacks from 2006 although funny, makes it llok bad.
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Prodigy's 1 meg is from 64k up to 1 meg their 2 meg they offer from 256k up to 2 meg on their 4 meg they do offer from 2048 up to 4 meg but the cost on that is almost $500.00 dollars a month.
prodigy 2007
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Callumore41; slang turns it into meck and later le meg, that is to say, God.
Les Miserables 2008
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It is the word magnus; the Scotchman makes of it his mac, which designates the chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the great Callumore [41]; slang turns it into meck and later le meg, that is to say, God.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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slang turns it into meck and later le meg, that is to say, God.
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That's more than a million: 1,048,576 to be exact. (an actual "meg") If you physically tested each one on a running engine, and gave each test just 5 seconds to see how the engine reacted, it would take almost 61 days to run that test working 24-7.
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That's more than a million: 1,048,576 to be exact. (an actual "meg") If you physically tested each one on a running engine, and gave each test just 5 seconds to see how the engine reacted, it would take almost 61 days to run that test working 24-7.
Barking Moonbat Early Warning System The Skipper 2010
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In the distant past the megabyte and gigabyte were honorable quantities of storage and we referred to them by their full names; now they are too familiar, and we call them "meg" and "gig."
Ask MetaFilter lucius 2009
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i am starting a band with gifford and joel and i am going to be playing the drums. i already have the name "meg" going for me, so i think that i'll be okay.
longest entry south of hyrum! kindbegger 2005
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