English
wikipedia|megabyte

Noun
en-noun

1. One million bytes. SI Symbol: MB
2. context|computing 1,048,576 bytes; a mebibyte. Frequently abbreviated MB.

#* 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.

Translations
trans-top|about a million bytes
Chinese: ��� (zhào zì jié)
French: mégaoctet
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Polish: megabajt m
Russian: мегабай� m
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See also
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Next: gigabyte

References
[http://www.iec.ch/online_news/etech/arch_2003/etech_0503/focus.htm| The IEC explanation of its definitions]

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