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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
megabyte
noun
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▪ Additional disk space is a dollar or two per megabyte per month, depending on total amount.
▪ First, they generally need very large memory stores, typically of the order of hundreds of megabytes.
▪ In computer lingo, a million bytes is commonly referred to as one megabyte.
▪ Lisa shipped with over 1000K bytes of memory, known as a megabyte, and that was barely enough.
▪ Lisa solved the problem by shipping with over 1, 000K memory, a megabyte.
▪ The card is equipped with 1 megabyte of VideoRAM which allows up to 32,000 colours to be displayed.
▪ The maximum is 74 minutes which is, therefore, the maximum time available to read about 650 megabytes of data.
▪ Uses can also use the catalogue program to select their put together their own disks for £8.95 per compressed megabyte.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
megabyte

1972, from mega- + byte.\n\nThe Sussex team has run the Forrester/Meadows models more than 1000 times on the UK's most powerful computer (the giant two-megabyte IBM 370/165 at Harwell).

["New Scientist," May 4, 1972]

Wiktionary
megabyte

n. 1 One million (106) bytes. SI Symbol: MB 2 (context computing English) 1,048,576 bytes; a mebibyte. Frequently abbreviated MB.

WordNet
megabyte

n. a unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes [syn: MB]

Wikipedia
Megabyte

The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. Its recommended unit symbol is MB, but sometimes MByte is used. The unit prefix mega is a multiplier of (10) in the International System of Units (SI). Therefore, one megabyte is one million bytes of information. This definition has been incorporated into the International System of Quantities.

However, in the computer and information technology fields, several other definitions are used that arose for historical reasons of convenience. A common usage has been to designate one megabyte as (2 B), a measurement that conveniently expresses the binary multiples inherent in digital computer memory architectures. However, most standards bodies have deprecated this usage in favor of a set of binary prefixes, in which this measurement is designated by the unit mebibyte (MiB). Less common is a measurement that used the megabyte to mean 1000×1024 bytes.

Usage examples of "megabyte".

We are talking here about tens of megabytes, or maybe even gigabytes per second.

For Unix, you needed at least an IBM-compatible computer with an 80386 chip and four megabytes of RAM.

Any data file of more than two megabytes is displayed as an X-rated picture.

I sent an e-mail that has yet to be picked up, and I hired a few megabytes on an Internet storage site.

All that power, all those millions of megabytes squatting there, and I was plugged right into it.

Eschaton takes eight to twelve people to play, w/ 400 tennis balls so dead and bald they can't even be used for service drills anymore, plus an open expanse equal to the area of four contiguous tennis courts, plus a head for data-retrieval and coldly logical cognition, along with at least 40 megabytes of available RAM and wide array of tennis paraphernalia.

It has an MC-68000 microprocessor, and two megabytes of bubble memory.

Two megabytes means that the memory stores up to two million characters -- enough for a whole book -- and since it uses bubble memory, you don't lose the information when you switch it off.

These printers have been with us since the 1980's and now are in a price range of the 5 megabyte hard drives on the first computer to house Project Gutenberg in 1971.

I had hundreds of megabytes stashed in my head on an idiot savant basis information I had no conscious access too.

They were five hundred megabytes each and Lane's computer only had 384 megs of RAM.