megabyte

[ US /ˈmɛɡəˌbaɪt/ ]
[ UK /mˈɛɡəbˌa‍ɪt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes
  2. a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes
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How To Use megabyte In A Sentence

  • When you bought that new computer a couple of years ago, you probably thought its 500-megabyte hard disk would last for ever.
  • Uses can also use the catalogue program to select their put together their own disks for £8.95 per compressed megabyte.
  • Then there's the cost — all too easily you'll be in pricy pay-by-the-megabyte territory. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ram memory is measured in millions of bytes (megabytes).
  • No, your eyes do not deceive you - 85 games crammed on to one disc, a task made easier because most take up only a few megabytes each, but it is still a bargain.
  • Here is a quick explanation of bytes, megabytes, and so on, and some estimates of the storage requirements of various sorts of information.
  • Expected to hit stores this fall, Thomson's LYRA is the first portable device that can play multiple audio formats; even better, it will use IBM's 340-megabyte microdrive to store up to nine hours of high-quality music. Marrying Music To The Pc
  • The monochrome screen is not backlit, and there are just 2 megabytes of memory.
  • Within a building, a local area network can transfer data at broadband speeds-10 megabytes per second or more.
  • It comes with eight megabytes of random access memory, a must since it also comes with Windows 95.
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