megabyte

megabyte

See also: Megabyte and mégabyte

English

Etymology

mega- +‎ byte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛɡəˌbaɪt/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

Noun

megabyte (plural megabytes)

1. One million (10⁶) bytes.
   • 1964, IBM, System/360 System Summary, page 27

     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.

   • 1973, IBM, Reference Manual for IBM 3340/3344 Disk Storage, page 3

     This 70-megabyte [69,889,536 bytes] data module contains fixed heads in addition to the normal access heads.

2. (computing) 1,048,576 bytes; a mebibyte.
   • 2003, Michael Meyers, Managing and Troubleshooting PCs, page 933

     One megabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. One megahertz, however is a million Hertz.

   • 2004, Kerry Cox & Christopher Gerg, Managing Security with Snort and IDS Tools, page 92

     Defaults to 2 megabytes (2,097,152 bytes).

   • 2006, Eriq Oliver Neale, Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed, page 290

     By default, each log file [...] is exactly 5 megabytes (5,242,880 bytes) in size.

Synonyms

• MB, ㎆

Coordinate terms

• Previous: kilobyte
• Next: gigabyte

Related terms

• Mb
• mebibyte
• megabit

Translations

about a million bytes

Arabic: مِيغَابَايْت‎ m (miḡabayt) Bengali: মেগাবাইট (bn) (megabaiṭ) Chinese: Mandarin: (formal) 兆字節／兆字节 (zh) (zhàozìjié), (common abbreviation, pronounced like English) MG Czech: megabyte (cs) m, megabajt m Esperanto: megabitoko, megabajto Finnish: megatavu (fi) French: mégaoctet (fr) m, mégabyte (fr) m Georgian: მეგაბაიტი (megabaiṭi) German: Megabyte (de) n Greek: μεγκαμπάιτ n (megkampáit), μεγαδυφιοσυλλαβή n (megadyfiosyllaví) Hebrew: מגה-בית‎ Hungarian: megabyte (hu) Icelandic: megabæti Japanese: メガバイト (megabaito) Korean: 메가바이트 (megabaiteu) Macedonian: мегабајт m (megabajt) Navajo: tááłtsohʼííłké Polish: megabajt (pl) m Portuguese: megabyte (pt) m Romanian: megabyte (ro) m, megaoctet m Russian: мегаба́йт (ru) m (megabájt) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ме̏габајт m Roman: mȅgabajt (sh) m Spanish: megabyte (es) Thai: เมกะไบต์ (th) Turkish: megabayt Uyghur: مېگابايت‎ (mëgabayt) Yiddish: מעגאַבײַט‎ (megabayt)

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Czech

Alternative forms

• megabajt

Etymology

mega- +‎ byte

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɛɡabajt]

Noun

megabyte m

1. megabyte

Further reading

• megabyte in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• megabyte in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

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Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English megabyte. By surface analysis, mega- +‎ byte.

Noun

megabyte m (invariable)

1. (computing) megabyte

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Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English megabyte.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌmɛɡaˈbajt(ʃ)(i)/

Noun

megabyte m (plural megabytes)

1. (computing) megabyte (one million bytes)

Synonyms

• Abbreviations: MB, mega

Coordinate terms

• Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte

Related terms

• megabit
• mebibyte

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English megabyte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /meɡaˈbait/ [me.ɣ̞aˈβ̞ai̯t̪]
• Rhymes: -ait

Noun

megabyte m (plural megabytes)

1. megabyte

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “megabyte”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014