megabyte

n : a unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes

[syn: {Megabyte}, {Mb}, {MB}]

megabyte

({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)