See also: Megabyte and mégabyte

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Etymology edit

From mega- +‎ byte.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛɡəˌbaɪt/
  • (file)

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megabyte (plural megabytes)

  1. (computing, formal) One million (106, or 1,000,000) bytes or 1,000 kilobytes.
    • 1964, System/360 System Summary, IBM, 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, Reference Manual for IBM 3340/3344 Disk Storage, IBM, page 3:
      This 70-megabyte [69,889,536 bytes] data module contains fixed heads in addition to the normal access heads.
  2. (computing, informal) 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.

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Etymology edit

From mega- +‎ byte.

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megabyte m inan

  1. megabyte

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Further reading edit

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

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Etymology edit

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

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megabyte m (invariable)

  1. (computing) megabyte

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Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English megabyte.

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megabyte m (plural megabytes)

  1. (computing) megabyte (one million bytes)

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Etymology edit

Unadapted borrowing from English megabyte.

Pronunciation edit

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

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megabyte m (plural megabytes)

  1. megabyte

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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.

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