Frommega- +byte.
megabyte (pluralmegabytes)
- (computing, formal) One million (106, or 1,000,000)bytes or 1,000kilobytes.
1964,System/360 System Summary, IBM, page27:The IBM 2301 Drum Storage (Figure 20) provides random access storage of approximately 4 million bytes at a data rate of 1.2megabytes per second.
- (computing, informal) Amebibyte.
2003, Michael Meyers,Managing and Troubleshooting PCs, page933:Onemegabyte is 1,048,576 bytes. One megahertz, however is a million Hertz.
2004, Kerry Cox, Christopher Gerg,Managing Security with Snort and IDS Tools, page92:Defaults to 2megabytes (2,097,152 bytes).
2006, Eriq Oliver Neale,Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed, page290:By default, each log file [...] is exactly 5megabytes (5,242,880 bytes) in size.
Frommega- +byte.
megabyte m inan
- megabyte
Declension ofmegabyte (hard masculine inanimate foreign)
- “megabyte”, inKartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)
- “megabyte”, inAkademický slovník cizích slov at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz [Academic dictionary of foreign words] (in Czech),1995
Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishmegabyte. Bysurface analysis,mega- +byte.
megabyte m (invariable)
- (computing)megabyte
Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishmegabyte.
- (Brazil)IPA(key): /ˌmɛ.ɡaˈbaj.t͡ʃi/[ˌmɛ.ɡaˈbaɪ̯.t͡ʃi],/ˌmɛ.ɡaˈbajt͡ʃ/[ˌmɛ.ɡaˈbaɪ̯t͡ʃ]
- (Brazil)IPA(key): /ˌmɛ.ɡaˈbaj.t͡ʃi/[ˌmɛ.ɡaˈbaɪ̯.t͡ʃi],/ˌmɛ.ɡaˈbajt͡ʃ/[ˌmɛ.ɡaˈbaɪ̯t͡ʃ]
- (Southern Brazil)IPA(key): /ˌmɛ.ɡaˈbajt͡ʃ/[ˌmɛ.ɡaˈbaɪ̯t͡ʃ],/ˌmɛ.ɡaˈbaj.t͡ʃi/[ˌmɛ.ɡaˈbaɪ̯.t͡ʃi]
megabyte m (pluralmegabytes)
- (computing)megabyte(one million bytes)
Unadapted borrowing fromEnglishmegabyte.
megabyte m (pluralmegabytes)
- megabyte
According toRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
