megabyte

2 definitions found

megabyte - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  megabyte
      n 1: a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6
           (1,000,000) bytes [syn: megabyte, M, MB]
      2: a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20
         (1,048,576) bytes [syn: megabyte, mebibyte, M, MB,
         MiB]

megabyte - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  megabyte
  meg
  
     <unit> (MB, colloquially "meg") 2^20 = 1,048,576 bytes =
     1024 kilobytes.  1024 megabytes are one gigabyte.
  
     The text of a six hundred page paperback book would require
     about a megabyte of ASCII storage.
  
     See prefix.
  
     (1997-03-26)