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megabyte
UK /ˈmɛɡəˌbaɪt/ US /ˈmɛɡəˌbaɪt/
noun 2
Definitions
noun
1
One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bytes or 1,000 kilobytes.
The IBM 2301 Drum Storage (Figure 20) provides random access storage of approximately 4 million bytes at a data rate of 1.2 megabytes per second.
This 70-megabyte [69,889,536 bytes] data module contains fixed heads in addition to the normal access heads.
2
A mebibyte.
One megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. One megahertz, however is a million Hertz.
Defaults to 2 megabytes (2,097,152 bytes).
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