megabyte
noun
mega·byte
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Definition of megabyte
: 1024 kilobytes or 1,048,576 bytes
also
: one million bytes
Examples of megabyte in a Sentence
The CD has a storage capacity of 800 megabytes.
Recent Examples on the Web
To be sure, the phone’s 4G speed was still mighty fast, up to 117 megabytes. — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, "These Providence 5G cellphone speeds are almost hot to handle," 14 Aug. 2019 In the 1980s, public keys based on lattices were too long, requiring megabytes of data to transmit. — Quanta Magazine, "A Tricky Path to Quantum-Safe Encryption," 8 Sep. 2015 With projects like Android Go focusing on squeezing every megabyte out of cheap devices with only 8GB of internal storage, app bundles and dynamic delivery would be a huge boon. — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, "Android 9 Pie, thoroughly reviewed," 13 Sep. 2018 The new service will cost about 10 cents per megabyte, with packages ranging from 600 megabytes for about $7 to four gigabytes for about $30. — Andrea Rodriguez, The Seattle Times, "Cuba to begin full internet access for mobile phones," 5 Dec. 2018 Ushr makes the Super Cruise system’s maps—terabytes of map data boiled down to a few hundred megabytes of relevant route information. — Christopher Mims, WSJ, "The Key to Autonomous Driving? An Impossibly Perfect Map," 11 Oct. 2018 SanDisk says the read speeds for this drive max out at 535 megabytes per second and write speeds up to 450 megabytes per second. — Ian Paul, PCWorld, "Amazon's one-day storage sale has great prices on SSDs, thumb drives, and external drives," 26 Sep. 2018 The directive, first proposed in July, institutes a fee (link in French) of 5 CFA francs ($0.008) per megabyte consumed through services like Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter. — Casey Newton, The Verge, "Congress is getting better at questioning social media executives," 6 Sep. 2018 Any visions of, say, feeding this book and Barlow’s many megabytes of text, abandoned manuscripts, and unmade screenplays into a neural net and generating a Barlow AI to re-occupy @jpbarlow are dashed by stories like these. — Jesse Jarnow, WIRED, "The Ghost of John Perry Barlow Lives in His Posthumous Memoir," 5 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'megabyte.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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megabyte
noun
English Language Learners Definition of megabyte
computers
: a unit of computer information equal to 1,048,576 bytes
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megabyte
noun
mega·byte
| \ ˈme-gə-ˌbīt
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Kids Definition of megabyte
: a unit of computer information storage capacity equal to 1,048,576 bytes
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