Megabyte

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  megabyte
       n : a unit of information equal to one million (1,048,576) bytes
           [syn: {MB}]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:



  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)