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Noun: megabyte  'me-gu,bIt
  1. A unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes
    - M, MB
     
  2. A unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes
    - mebibyte, M, MB, MiB

Derived forms: megabytes

Type of: computer memory unit

Part of: G, GB, GiB, gibibyte, gig, gigabyte

Encyclopedia: Megabyte

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