Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,048,576 (220) bytes.
- noun One million bytes.
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- noun One million bytes.
SI Symbol:MB - noun computing 1,048,576 bytes; a
mebibyte . Frequently abbreviatedMB .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes
- noun a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes
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Examples
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Their cost per megabyte is at least triple what it cost for DSL.
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"People may not know what a megabyte is but they do understand when they get an alert telling them they're about to go over their limit," he said.
FCC chair dings carriers over 'bill shock' Brad Reed 2010
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They are correctly using the terms megabyte and gigabyte.
Snow Leopard Reports Hard Drive Capacity Correctly (In Base 10) | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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While you can stop the credit expiring by purchasing more credit, you can’t buy a large initial bundle and then top up with small amounts effectively, since the rate per megabyte is much higher on the cheaper plans.
Next G Wireless Broadband Goes Prepaid | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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While you can stop the credit expiring by purchasing more credit, you can’t buy a large initial bundle and then top up with small amounts effectively, since the rate per megabyte is much higher on the cheaper plans.
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Tesler: So the hardware people made it as big as they could in the address space, and then after some testing of the system we determined that half a megabyte was a reasonable compromise of cost and performance.
A behind-the-scenes look at the development of Apple’s Lisa 2008
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Tesler: So the hardware people made it as big as they could in the address space, and then after some testing of the system we determined that half a megabyte was a reasonable compromise of cost and performance.
A behind-the-scenes look at the development of Apple’s Lisa 2008
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Tesler: So the hardware people made it as big as they could in the address space, and then after some testing of the system we determined that half a megabyte was a reasonable compromise of cost and performance.
A behind-the-scenes look at the development of Apple’s Lisa 2008
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Tesler: So the hardware people made it as big as they could in the address space, and then after some testing of the system we determined that half a megabyte was a reasonable compromise of cost and performance.
A behind-the-scenes look at the development of Apple’s Lisa 2008
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Tesler: So the hardware people made it as big as they could in the address space, and then after some testing of the system we determined that half a megabyte was a reasonable compromise of cost and performance.
A behind-the-scenes look at the development of Apple’s Lisa 2008
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